w x •"7^5 AA.AAAAAAAAAAAAA, 1872 AAAAAAAAAAAAAA ^ CHARTER OF THE SOCIETY 1Z, "/2..... OF ' \S THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL, LAWS RELATING THERETO, WITH THE BY-LAWS AND RE&ULATIOHS OF THE INSTITUTION. AND THOSE OF THE Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane. NEW YORK: D. VAN NOSTRAND, PUBLISHER AND IMPORTER, 23 Murray and 27 Wakkkn Street. .1872. Society or the. N^ 7,A Ho*pit*l Ill____________/ _______ ..... _... . — •■■ ------ ■ .....~™' CHARTER OF THE SOCIETY THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL, LAWS RELATING THERETO, WITH THE BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE INSTITUTION, AND THOSE OP THE Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane. % NEW YORK: D. VAN NOSTRAND, PUBLISHER AND IMPORTER, 23 Murray and 27 Warren Street. 1872. ARMED FORCES MEDIOAL UMAfff > WAflHM«70lt, i. O^ *<;; THE CHARTER. [The passages printed in italics have been repealed or altered by subsequent Acts of the Legislature, which are reprinted after this Charter.] Gkohgk the Tuibd, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Prance, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting : Whereas our loving subjects, Peter Middleton, John Jones, and Samuel Bard, of our city of New York, physicians, by their humble petition presented unto our trusty and well-beloved Cadwallader Col- den, Esq.,our Lieutenant-Governor, and then our com- mander-in-chief, of our province of New York, and the territories depending thereon in America, and read in our council for our said province, on the ninth petition of Doc- day of March, which was in the year of our Lord t?™ MidJdleto,;> "v., , , -, -, t*7 ,. , Jones, and Bard, one thousand seven hundred and seventy, did, among for a charter for other things, in substance, set forth, that there had ci°e(1Hospital re' been a subscription set on foot by them, for the pur- pose of erecting a public Hospital in our said city of New York, and that sundry public-spirited persons, influenced by principles of benevolence, had liberally subscribed towards the same ; that from the mani- fest utility of such an infirmary the petitioners hoped for further contributions, and that some very con- siderable donations had been then already promised, in case the success of the Institution should be rendered probable ; but that the said moneys could not be conveniently collected, or the design pro- secuted with vigor, unless a corporation should be formed for that purpose ; and therefore the petition- ers humbly prayed our Letters Patent, forming a corporation for the purposes aforesaid : now, we, taking into our royal consideration the beneficial tendency of such an Institution within our said city, calculated for relieving the diseases of the indigent, and preserving the lives of many useful members of the community, are graciously pleased to grant the said humble request of our said loving subjects : know ye, therefore, that we, of our special grace, 4 THE CHARTER Oy THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL. which, in con- certain knowledge, and mere motion, have willed, Senciai °toSgiven, granted, ordained, constituted, and appointed, dency, is grant- an(j fry these presents for us, our heirs and success- ' Members of ors, do will, give, grant, ordain, constitute, and ap- *emejorporation point, that the Mayor, Eecorder, Aldermen, and Assistants of our city of New York, in America, now and for the time being ; the Rector of Trinity Church in our said city, now and for the time being ; the President of King's College in our said city, now and for the time being ; the Senior Minister of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in our said city, now and for the time being ; the Minister of the Ancient Lutheran Church in our said city, now and for the time being; the Minister of the French Church in our said city, now and for the time being ; the Senior Minister of the Presbyterian Church in our said city, now and for the time being ; the Minister of the Moravian Church in our said city, now and for the time being; the Minister of the German Reformed Calvinist Church in our said city, now and for the time being ; the Minister of the New Lutheran Church in our said city, now and for the time being ; the Minister of the Ana- baptist Congregation in our said city, now and for the time being ; the Minister of the Scotch Pres- byterian Church in our said city,now and for the time being ; and Sir William Johnson, Baronet ; John Fothergill, of our city of London, in our kingdom of Great Britain, physician ; Daniel Horsmandel, John Watts, Oliver De Lancey, Charles Ward Apthorp, Roger Morris, William Smith, Hugh Wallace, Henry White, Robert R. Livingston, Andrew Elliot, Archi- bald Kennedy, Abm. Mortier, Philip Livingston, Wm. Axtel, Jas. Duane, John Morin Scott, Leonard Lispenard, Simon Johnson, Thos. Smith, Wm. Bay- ard, Walter Rutherford, Alex. Colden, John Van Cortland, Augustus Van Cortland, Wm. Livingston, Abraham Mesier, Richard Morris, John Bogert, and John Moore, all of our said city of New York, esquires ; Abraham Lot, esquire, treasurer of our said province; Peter Van Brugh Livingston, David Clarkson, Walter Franklin, Gerard William Beekman, William M'Adam, George Bowne, Na- thaniel Marston, Lawrence Kortright, George Folliott, David Provoost, Cornelius Clopper, John Myer, David Van Home, Thomas White, Charles M'Evers, Isaac Low, John Beekman, Richard Sharp, Thomas Pearsall, Joshua Delaplane, Samuel Bowne, THE CHARTER OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL. 5 Isaac Sears, Samuel Broome, John Thurnam, Jacob Watson, Lewis Pintard, Gerardus Duyckinck, James Beekman, Peter Goelet, William Ludlow, Nicholas Stuyvesant, John Harris Cruger, John Weather- head, Theophilact Bache, Samuel Verplanck, John Crook, Grove Bend, John Alsop, Caspar Wistar, Isaac Rosevelt, Evert Banker, Gerardus De Peyster, Henry Rutgers the younger, Henry Haydock, Gabriel H. Ludlow, Isaac Corsa, Thomas Buchanan, Andrew Barclay, John Livingston, Augustus Van Home, Joseph Hallett, Peter Kettletas, Jacob Le Roy, and Abraham Duryee, all of our said city of New York, merchants; William Brownejohn, of our said city of New York, druggist ; John Leake, of our said city of New York, mariner; George Harrison, of our said. city of New York, brewer; Walter DuBois, and Ni- cholas Jones, both of our said city of New York, gen- tlemen: and Francis Bassett, of uur said city of New York, pewterer; and such other persons as shall be elected and admitted hereafter members of the corpo- ration hereby erected, be and for ever hereafter shall be, by virtue, of these presents, one body corporate ^nd i°corpo- and politic, in deed, fact and name, by the name, style, and title of * " The Society of the Hospital in the city of style and Title. New York in America," and them and their successors, and by the same name, we do by these presents, really and fully make, erect, create, constitute, and declare one body politic and corporate, in deed, fact and name, for ever; and will give, grant, and ordain, that they and their successors, the Society of the Hospital in the city of New York in America, by the same name, shall and may have perpetual succession; and shall, Tohave p.erPe- J r r ' i 1 • *ua' succession. and may, by the same name, be persons capable in capable to sue the law to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and be sued" answer and be answered unto, defendand be defended, in all courts, and elsewhere, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints,pleas, causes,matters, and demands whatsoever, as fully and amply as any other our liege subjects of our said province of New York, may or can sue or be sued, implead or be impleaded, defend or be defended by any lawful ways or means whatso- ever. And that they and their successors, by the, .May h,,ld rs- same name, shall for ever hereafter be persons capable and able in the law to purchase, take, hold, receive, and enjoy to them and their successors, any messuages, * See Act to alter the style and title of the Hospital of the city of New York, and to amend the Charter thereof, passed March 9th, 1810, sec. 1. p. 16. 6 THE CHARTER OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL. tenements, houses, and real estate whatsoever, and all other hereditaments of whatsoever nature, kind, and quality they be, in fee simple, for term of life or lives, or in any other manner howsoever. And also, any goods, chattels, and personal estate whatsoever. provided the Provided always, the clear yearly value of the said dear yearly in- reai estate doth not at any time exceed the sum of come does not „ ,. , , , *i. i e 1 £ exceed £5,000 five thousand pounds sterling, lawful money 01 our suriing. kingdom of Great Britain, above all outgoings and reprises. And that they and their successors, by the same name, shall have full power and authority to give, grant, sell, lease, demise, and dispose of the The corpora- same real estate and hereditaments whatsoever, for and sSfestates6 life or lives> or years or for ever. And also, all goods, ' chattels, and personal estate whatsoever, at their will and pleasure, as they shall judge to be most beneficial and advantageous to the good and charitable ends and purposes above mentioned; and that it shall and may be lawful for them and their successors, for ever, and have a seal, hereafter, to have a common seal to serve for the causes and business of them and their successors, and the same seal to change, alter, break, and make new, from time to time, at their will and pleasure. And our royal will and pleasure is, that when our said corporation, hereby erected, shall have acquired, by the aid of the Legislature of our said province of New York, by the generous donations of the bene- when ground volent or otherwise, a proper and convenient piece is 0Dtaj"ed they 0f ground in and near our said city of New York, Hospital"1 an and funds sufficient, without injuring the said char- ity, to admit of the erecting an Hospital for the re- ception and relief of sick and diseased persons, that the said society do erect within our said city of New York, an Hospital for the said purposes ; which we will shall for ever hereafter be called by the name of which shall be" The New York Hospital." And that it shall and York1 Hospital!*''mav De lawful for our said corporation, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, to erect for their use and convenience, any other house, houses, or build- For the more ings whatever. And for the better carrying into ment'of thTso- executi°n the purposes aforesaid, our royal will and ciety, there shall pleasure is, and we do hereby for us, our heirs and ty^SPGOTeraonj successors, give and grant to the Society of the Hos- ' pital in the city of New York, in America, and their successors for ever, that there shall be for ever here- after, belonging to our said corporation, twenty- six Governors of the said Hospital, and corpora- tion, of whom there shall be taken and had one THE CHARTER OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL. 7 President, and one Vice-President, and who shall Vi£S£dlnt,nd conduct and manage the affairs and business of the said Hospital and corporation in manner as here- after is declared and appointed. And also that there shall be for ever hereafter, one or more Treas- urer or Treasurers, and one Secretary belonging to ^J™"*/6' and our said corporation. And for the more immediate secretary.' carrying into execution our royal will and pleasure herein^e do hereby assign, constitute, and appoint the aforesaid John Watts, Oliver De Lancy, Charles Ward Apthorp, Roger Morris, William Smith, Hugh ors F0^heG°™™; Wallace, Henry White, Robert R. Livingston, White-ratiou named. head Hicks, Mayor of our said city of New York, Andrew Elliot, Archibald Kennedy, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, David Clarkson, Abraham Mortier, Abra- ham Lott, Walter Franklin, Leonard Lispenard, Gerardus William Beekman, Philip Livingston, Wil- liam M'Adam, George Bowne, William Axtell, Dr. John Fothergill, Nathaniel Marston, Lawrence Kort- right, and George Folliott, to be the present Govern- ors of the said Hospital and corporation; the aforesaid John Watts to be the present President; and the President and aforesaid Andrew Elliot to be the present Vice-Tr^sur^rresidea^ President; the aforesaid Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Secretary nam- to be the present Treasurer ; and the aforesaid John remain°inaoffice° Moore, to be the present Secretary of our corpora- tion hereby erected. Which said Governors, Presi- dent, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary, shall hold, possess, and enjoy their said respective offices until the third Tuesday in May, now next ensuing. until the Thlrd And for the keeping up the succession in the said Tuesday in May, offices, our royal will and pleasure is, and we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, establish, And for keep- direct, and require of and give and grant to the said '"0gnuPha §™?ee*" Society of the Hospital in the city of .New York in is to'meet for the America, and their successors for ever, that on the f^™ of new said third Tuesday in May, now next ensuing, and the 3d Tuesday yearly, and every year, for ever thereafter on them May annua11^ third Tuesday in May in every year, they and their successors shall meet at the said Hospital, or at some other convenient place in our said city of New York, to be fixed and ascertained by some of the By- Laws or regulations of our said corporation, and there, by the majority of such of them as shall so to elect by bal. meet, shall by ballot, or in such other manner and l°^°* °£erwise form as shall be directed and established by any [of] emor£a™ the By-Laws or regulations of our said corporation, elect and choose twenty-six of their members, to be 8 THE CHARTER OP THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL. Governors of our said corporation and Hospital for Governor05 chc-e ^G ensuing year : * and also out of the said Governors sen to elect a so elected and chosen, shall elect and choose as afore- viceide Residentsai^ one President and one Vice-President, of our for the ensuing said incorporation, for the ensuing year. And also, ye3And out oishatt then and there elect and choose, as aforesaid, one the Gbovresrnohrs or°r more of the said Governors or members at large, of a Treasurer. our said corporation, to be Treasurer or Treasurers of ^^^f^^r said corporation for the ensuing year, and another retary. The new of the said members to be Secretary for the ensuing orsTnd Officers Vear- Which said Governors, and other the officers to enter ^imme-aforesaid, of our said corporation, so elected, shall duatyeand0°emaeinimmediately enter upon their respective offices, and in office one year, hold, exercise, and enjoy the same respectively, from or till others be ,, •_• j-iij-p • - ■, chosen in their tne time ot such election for and during the space of stead. one vear> an(j until otlier fit persons gjj^ be elected and chosen in their respective places, according to in case of the the laws and regulations aforesaid.* And in case Si, ™T*ne.any°fthe said persons by these presents nominated othersfo bTcho an^ aPPointeci to the respective offices aforesaid, or who senYnfcei/stead shall hereafter be elected and chosen thereto, respective- rftehrnsuch con- ly' shal1 die' or on anV account oe removed from such tingency. offices respectively, before the time of their respective due pracUcesTn aPPointed services shall be expired, or refuse or neglect such elections, to act in and execute the office for which he or they vLP-pitmen?, sh(?U be so elected and chosen, or is or are herein no- Go^rnors °f the minoration and Hospital. And our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, direct, ordain, and require, that every President, J10™™10™, and TT. ' . , ' ~ ni J ,j a officers to take an Vice-President, Governor, .Treasurer, and Secretary oath or amrma- of our said corporation, to be elected by virtue of Pernfor^anfeethfof these presents, shall, before they act in their respec- duties. tive offices, take an oath, or (if any of them shall be of the people called Quakers, or Uuitas Fratrum,) an affirmation to be to them administered by the President or Vice-Presideut of our said corporation for the time being, or of the preceding year, (who are hereby severally authorized to administer the same,) for the faithful and due execution of their respective offices, during their continuance in the same respectively. And further, our royal will and pleasure is,' and we do hereby for us, our 10 THE CHARTER OP THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL. heirs and successors, ordain and appoint, and give and grant to the Society of the Hospital, in the The President, city of New York, in America, that the President of °hin hvicebpresf ^G said corporation for the time being, and in case dent, S1 of a vacancy in the said office of President, or in case of his sickness or absence, the Vice-President of our said corporation shall, and may from time to may summon time, as occasion may require, summon and call to- the Governors to gether, at such days and places within our said city meet' of New York as they shall respectively think proper, the Governors of the said corporation and Hospital giving at least for the time being, giving them at the least one day's one day's notice. notice thereof ; and we do hereby require them to meet accordingly, and give, grant, and ordain, that seven of the Gov-any seven or more of the said Governors of our said emors, of whom corporation, being so convened together, of whom the Vice-Presidwit to President of our said corporation for the time being, bh ifnraakyeRa°uo-or *n case °^ a vacancv m ^he said office, or the sick- rum, ness or absence of the said President, the Vice-Presi- dent for the time being, shall always be one, shall for- ever hereafter be a legal meeting of the said corpora- tion ; and they, or the major part of them so met, have power to ad-shall have full power and authority to adjourn from i°urn> day to day, or for any other time, as the business of our said corporation may require ; and to do, exe- cute, transact, manage, and perform, in the name of our said corporation, all and every act and acts, thing and things whatsoever, which our said corpora- tion are or shall, by virtue of these our Letters and transact the Patent, be authorized to do, act, transact, manage, cor'oration the an(^ Perf°rm> m as full anfl ample manner as if all and every the Governors and members of the said corporation were present, and consenting thereto : except choosing saving and except always the electing of Governors, otheerr°fflcers,and and other the offices above mentioned of our said cor- poration : and also, saving and except the giving, and except grant-granting, selling, or otherwise aliening any of the angiongeSr&ctermestate' r€:al or Personal, of our said corporation : and than one year, the leasing, demising, or disposing of any of the Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, real or mixed estate of our said corporation, for any longer term or None ofthees-time than one year ; our royal will and pleasure r:uo0nftoebCe0rbeing th,at none of the estate, real, personal, or posed of but by mixed, of our said corporation, be sold, or in any majodty of thewise aliened, but by and with the concurrence and whole Governors, approbation of the majority of the whole number of the Governors of our said corporation for the time being, first obtained at some legal meeting of our THE CHARTER OF THE NEW l'ORK HOSPITAL. 11 said corporation ; and, that none of the real or mixed estate of our said corporation be leased, de- mised, or in any wise disposed of for any longer term than one year, without the like concurrence and ap- probation of the majority of the whole number of i^TeeZg the Governors of our said corporation for the time maT. being, first obtained as aforesaid. And further, we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, ordain and appoint, and give and grant to the Society of the Hospital in the city of New York, in America, that at any and every such legal meeting of any seven or more of the Governors of our said corporation, of whom the President of our said corporation, for the time being, or in case of a vacancy in the said office, or the sickness or absence of the said President, the Vice- President, for the time being, shall always be one, it shall and may be lawful for them, in writing under under the seal of the common seal of our said corporation, to make, make'byTaws'for frame, constitute, establish, and ordain, from time to ^eengt0t°hder|0fern' time, and at all times hereafter, such laws, constitu- tions, ordinances, regulations, and statutes, for the better government of the officers, members, and of us members, servants of the said corporation, and of the patients "fX^ntTof the from time to time admitted into the said Hospital; patients to be ad- for fixing and ascertaining the places of meeting of miThe places and our said corporation, on the days and times of the mode of election- elections above mentioned ; and for regulating the mode and manner of making such and all other the elections in our said corporation ; the management and disposition of the funds and charities, and all other the business and affairs whatever of our said The manage- corporation, as they, or the major part of them, so "uonofthefunds legally met, shall judge best for the general good of *** charities and the said corporation, and profitable for the more ness, for the good effectual promoting the charitable and beneficial £f9nthea°°rp0trhae designs of the said corporation : and the same, or same again re- any of them, to alter, amend, or repeal, from time to peal aud amend' time, as they, or a major part of them, so met as aforesaid, shall judge most conducive to the benefit of the said charity; provided such laws, constitu- tions, regulations, ordinances, and statutes, be not Such by-laws repugnant to the laws of that part of our kingdom ^V^eT™ of Great Britain called England, nor of this our of England or province of New York. And we do further will andthis colony- grant, that the said Governors of the said corpora- tion for the time being, "or any seven or more of them so legally met and convened as aforesaid, of whom the President, or Vice-President for the time 12 THE CHARTER OP THE XEW YORK HOSPITAL. being, shall always be one, as aforesaid, shall have the full and sole power and authority for ever here- after, by the majority of their voices from time to The Governors time, to elect, nominate, and appoint such and so MmbT'oV h*manv physicians and surgeons as they shall judge Snfand PSur- necessary to attend the said Hospital, and the sick thenpSatientstteud and diseased patients from time to time admitted to the benefits of the said charity ; and to appoint the physicians and surgeons so elected, their re- spective powers, authorities, business, trusts, and also an apothe- attendances ; and also to appoint an apothecary, a andy'matronWard' steward, and matron, of and for the said Hospital ; and from time to time to appoint them, the said apoth- ecary, steward, and matron, and each of them, their respective powers, authorities, business, trusts, and attendances ; and to displace and discharge the and again dis- apothecary, steward, and matron from the service of point othL Yn the said Hospital, and to nominate and appoint other their stead. or others in their places and stead. And we do fur- ther, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, for us, our heirs and successors, grant Tte President, and ordain, that when, and as often as any President, GoTernOT,eSTdreas-Vice-President, Governor, Treasurer, Secretary, Phy- urer, Secretary, sician, or Surgeon of the said corporation, shall geon^ncapabieTf become unfit or incapable to execute their said serving, or rms- 0ffices respectively, or shall misdemean themselves jmear m .^ ^eir ga^ 0ffrceS) respectively, contrary to any of the by-laws or regulations of our said corporation, or refuse or neglect the execution thereof, and there- upon a complaint or charge in writing shall be ex- hibited against him or them, by any member of our said corporation, at any legal meeting of the Gov- ernors of our said corporation and Hospital, as aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for the President or Vice-President and Governors, or the major part of them, then met, or at any other legal meeting of our said corporation from time to time, may upon com- and upon examination and due proof, to suspend or «oanDt'anTmidue^sc^arSe sucn President, Vice-President, Governor, proof, be sus-Treasurer, Secretary, Physician or Surgeon, from pended their offices respectively, although the yearly or other time for their respective services shall not be expired; any thing before in these presents contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding; pro- vided always, that no President,Vice-President, Gov- ernor, Physician, or Surgeon, shall be suspended or . discharged at any meeting, without the concurrence Governor!11y ° and approbation of the majority of the whole number THE CHARTER OF THE XEW YORE HOSPITAL. 13 of the Governors of the said corporation, nor without having a copy of the complaint or charge against him, at least six days before such examination ; and an opportunity to be fully heard in his defence. And for the keeping up and preserving, for ever hereafter, a succession of members of the said corporation, our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, ordain, give, and grant, to "The Society of the Hospital in the City of New York, in America," and their successors for ever, that it shall and may be lawful at all time and times hereafter, for ever, for any seven or more of the Governors of our said corporation, for the time being, of whom we will. The Governors the President, or, in case of his absence, sickness, or may!gby ma^'ity a vacancy in the said office of President, the Vice- °f J*^6^™*6 President of the said corporation, shall always be one, being convened and met together, as aforesaid, so as to be a legal meeting of our said corporation, as above mentioned, to elect and choose by the majority of their voices, and in such manner and form, and upon such terms and conditions as shall be directed, ordained, and established for that purpose by any the said By- laws, statutes, constitutions, or ordinances of the said corporation, aud admit under the common seal of and under their our said corporation, such and so many persons to ™f ^T^they be members of the said corporation, as they shall B»aii deem bene- think beneficial to the laudable designs of the said Cie'tay. corporation. "Which persons, and every of them, so from time to time elected, chosen, and admitted, shall, by virtue thereof, and of these presents, be vested with all the powers, authorities, and privi- leges, which any member of the said corporation is hereby invested with. And our will and pleasure further is, that the said Governors of the said corpo- The Governors ration and Hospital, shall yearly and every year,to fender ac- .r. •■• pi i l counts to the give an account m writing of the several sums of General Assem- money by them received and expended, by virtue of pjj'ce0gdi*" *bg^ these presents, or any authority hereby given ; and thereunto requir- of the management, application, and disposition ofe " the revenues and charities aforesaid to the General Assembly of our said province, for the time being, or to such person or persons as the said General As- sembly shall, from time to time, appoint to receive and audit the same accounts, when they, the Gover- nors of our said Hospital, shall be thereunto required by the said General Assembly of our said province. And further, we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said 14 THE CHARTER OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL. Society of the Hospital, in the city of New York in America, and their successors for ever, that this our The charter to present Charter shall be deemed, adjudged, and con- faVr0oftUhedSonstrued in a11 CaSeH' mOSt fav°rably> and fo1* ^he beSJ ciety, benefit and advantage of our said corporation, and for the promoting the good end and designs of this charitable Institution; and that this our present and being enter-grant, being entered on record, as is hereinafter ex- ed on record, pressed, shall be for ever hereafter good and eflec- inaiawbe effectual tual in the law, according to our royal intent and meaning herein before declared ; and without any other license, grant, or confirmation from us, our heirs or successors, hereafter by the said corporation to be had or obtained, notwithstanding any mis- recitals, non-recitals, not-naming, or mis-naming, or any of the aforesaid offices, franchises, privileges, immunities, or other the premises, or any of them; and although no writ of ad quad Damnum, or other writs, inquisitions, or precepts, hath been upon this occasion had, made, issued, or prosecuted ; any sta- tute, act, ordinance, or provision, or other matter or thing to the contrary thereof in any wise notwith- standing. In testimony whereof, we have caused these our Letters to me made Patent, and the great seal of our said province to be hereunto affixed, and the same to be entered of record, in our Secretary's office for our said province of New York, in one of the Books of Patents there remaining. Witness our right trusty and right well-beloved cousin John, Earl of Dunmore, our Captain-General and Governor- in-Chief, in and over our said province of New York, and the territories depending thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice-Admiral of the same, at our fort in our city of New York, by and with the advice and consent of our council for our said province of New York, the thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, and of our reign the eleventh. ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. AN ACT for the better and more permanent support of the Hos- pital in the city of New York. Passed March 14th, 1806. "Whereas it has become necessary, on account of the increas- ing number of patients in the Hospital in the city of New York, to enlarge the same, by erecting additions thereto, for the more convenient accommodation of the sick and disabled, and parti- cularly, to provide suitable apartments for the maniacs, adapted to the various forms and degrees of insanity : And whereas, the said Hospital is an Institution of great public utility and human- ity, as well as the general interests of the State require that fit and adequate provision should be made for the support of such an infirmary for sick and insane persons : Therefore, the better to enable the Governors of the said Hospital, by means of a permanent fund, to maintain and improve the said Hospital,— I. Be it enacted by the people of the State of New York, repre- sented in Senate and Assembly, That the Treasurer of this State shall every year hereafter, until the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, upon the warrant of the Comptroller, pay to the Treasurer of the Society of the Hospital in the city of New York, in America, for the use of the said corporation, in quarter yearly payments, out of any moneys in the treasury of this State not otherwise appropriated, the annual sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars; the first quarterly payment to be made on the first day of May next ; which said annual sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars shall become chargeable upon the duties on sales at public auction or vendue in the said city of New York. II. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled " An act to continue the provision for the public Hospital, in the city of New York," passed the 2d March, 1805, be and the same is here- by repealed. III. And be it further enacted, That the Governors of the said Hospital shall make an annual report of the state of that Institu- tion to the Legislature. 16 ACTS OP THE LEGISLATURE. AN ACT to cdter the style and title of the Society of the Hospital in the city of New York, in America, and to amend the Charter Passed March 9th, 1810. Whereas " the Society of the Hospital in the city of New York, in America," by their petition under their common seal, have represented to the Legislature that doubt had arisen whether the election of members under a by-law of the said corporation, ex- isting for many years past, had been made in strict conformity with the Charter of the said Society, and that their franchises under the said Charter might thereby be rendered insecure, and have prayed that their said franchises may be confirmed to them and secured from the consequences of any mistake, or any future inaccuracy or misconstruction ; and also that the Legislature would be pleased to change the name and style of the said cor- poration, and to amend their Charter in the manner hereinafter mentioned; therefore, I. Be it enacted by the people of the Stale of New York, repre- sented in Senate and Assembly, That the said corporation snail for ever hereafter be known and distinguished by the name and style of " The Society of the New York Hospital ;" and by that name shall continue and be a body corporate and politic, and sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, without any seizure or forejudger of their fran- chises, liberties, or privileges, or being thereof excluded or oust- ed, for or upon any pretence of any forfeiture or misdemeanor at any time heretofore done, committed, or suffered; and the said corporation shall and may have and enjoy all their rights, grants, franchises, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and estates whatsoever, in like manner as if no misuser or other cause of forfeiture had heretofore occurred ; and all the acts of said cor- poration shall be and hereby are confirmed and declared to be as valid to'all intents and purposes as if no misuser or other cause of forfeiture had happened or been committed. II. And be it further enacted, That hereafter the President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary of the said corporation, shall be elected by the Governors of the same, and not, as here- tofore, by the members of the said corporation at large. AN ACT for the further support of the New York Hospital Passed 23d March, 1810. Be it enacted by the people of the State of New York, represent- ed in Senate and Assembly, That there shall be paid to the Treas- urer of the New York Hospital, for the time being, out of the ACTS OP THE LEGISLATIVE. 17 moneys arising from the duties on goods sold in the city of New York, three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, for the space of ten years from the passing of this act, to be paid quart- er yearly, in four equal payments, and the first quarter to be paid on the first day of August next, and quarterly thereafter, for and during the above term of ten years : Provided always, That at any time within the period aforesaid the Legislature may repeal this act. NOTE.—The above Act was repealed by the 5th section of the Act, en- titled " An Act respecting navigable communications between the Great Western and Northern Lakes and the Alantic Ocean," passed April 15, 1817. AN ACT to enable the Society of the Neiv York Hospital to erect a new building for the accommodation of insane patients. Passed April 17, 1816. Whereas the Governors of the New York Hospital have rep- resented to the Legislature, that the building heretofore erected for the accommodation of insane patients has, by reason of their increased number, become wholly inadequate for the purpose for which it is intended, that they are desirous of erect- ing another building for the said purpose, and have purchased a very eligible site for the same; but that the funds of the Insti- tution being merely sufficient for its ordinary expenses, they are unable, without aid of the Legislature, to carry their intention into effect; And whereas there is no other Institution in the State in which such patients can be taken care of and relieved ; And whereas humanity, and the interest of the State require that fit provision should be made for the care and cure of insane per- sons: Therefore, Be it enacted by the people of the State of New York, repres- ented in Senate and Assembly, That during the period men- tioned in the first section of the act entitled " An act for the better and more permanent support of the Hospital in the city of New York," the Treasurer of this State shall pay to the Treasurer of the Society of the New York Hospital, in quarter yearly payments, out of any moneys in the Treasury of this State not otherwise appropriated, the annual sum of ten thousand dollars, the first quarter yearly payment to be made on the first day of May next, which said annual sum shall be chargeable upon the duties on sales at public auction or vendue in the said city of New York : Provided always, that all 18 ACTS op the legislature. payments heretofore directed by law, to be made out of the aforesaid duties for the support of charitable institutions in the city of New York, shall be made previous to the payment of the sum hereby granted to the said Society of the New York Hospital. AN ACT to amend the Act Incorporating the Bank of Newburgh, and for other purposes. Passed 17th April, 1822. Section IV.—And be it further enacted, That no real or per- sonal property whatever, belonging to the Society of the New York Hospital, shall be subject to be taxed by virtue of any law of this State. AN ACT to amend the Charter of the Society of the New York Hospital. Passed 20th March, 1828. Be it enacted by the people of the State of New York, repres- sented in Senate and Assembly, That in the event of any vacancy happening in the Board of Governors of the New York Hospi- tal, either by death, resignation, or otherwise, such vacancy may be filled, until the next annual election, by the Board of Governors for the time being, anything in the Charter of " the Society of the New York Hospital" to the contrary notwith- standing. AN ACT to amend the Charter of the Society of the New York Hospital. Passed March 1st, 1850 (three-fifths being present). The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: I. At any legal meeting of the Governors of the New York Hospital, when neither the President nor the Vice-President shall attend, it shall be lawful for the said Governors to appoint one of their number to preside at such meeting. II. This act shall take effect immediately. ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. 19 • REVISED STATUTES, PART II. CHAP. XX. TITLE III. [It has been thought expedient, for the use and information of the Asylum Committee, the Physician, Warden, and officers of the Asylum, and others who may be interested in the care and support of insane patients, to print in this place the several provisions of the Revised Statutes of New York relating to the commitment, safe-keeping, and support of the insane. These are all the general provisions of law upon that subject as now in force, as the Revised Statutes have from to time been amended, with the exception only of the special legislation relating to the State Lunatic Asylum.] Article First.— Of the Safe Keeping and Care of Lunatics. Section 1.—Committees of a lunatic having property, to con- fine and maintain him. Section 2.—If he has not property, certain relatives to confine and support him. Section 3.—Powers of Overseer of Poor to compel relatives of lunatics to confine him, etc. Section 4.—Lunatics, how to be secured and where confined. Section 5.—Duty of Overseers to procure suitable place for confining lunatics. Section 6.—"When lunatics may be confined in jails ; but not as disorderly persons. Section 7.—Not to be confined with criminals, nor more than four weeks in a jail. Section 8.—Two Justices may apprehend a lunatic without application of Overseers. Section 9.—Superintendents and Overseers may send lunatics to Asylum in New York. Section 10.—Expense thereof, and of maintaining lunatic, how defrayed. Section 11.—Penalty for confining lunatics otherwise than as herein directed. Section 12.—Powers of Supreme Court respecting lunatics not to be affected by this title. Section 13.—Proceedings to compel committees of a lunatic to confine and support him. Section 14.—County Superintendents to have the same powers as Overseers. 20 ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. Section 1.—When any person, by lunacy or other- wise, becomes furiously mad, or so far disordered in his senses as to endanger his own person or the per- son or property of others, if permitted to go at large, Lunatics having who is possessed of sufficient property to maintain Confined; etc, by himself, it shall be i,he duty of the committee of his theirCommittees. person and estate to provide a suitable place for the confinement of such person, and to confine and main- tain him in such manner as shall be approved by the Overseers of the Poor of the city or town. Not having pro- Section 2.—If such a person is not possessed of fin^X'etc.l'oy'cer- sufficient property to maintain himself, it shall be the tain relatives, duty of the father and mother, and the children of such person, being of sufficient ability, to provide a suitable place for his confinement, and to confine and maintain him in such manner as shall be approved by the Overseers of the Poor of the city or town.27 G Duty, how en. Section 3.—The Overseeers of the Poor shall have forced. ^e game remedies to compel such relatives to confine and maintain such lunatic or mad person, and to collect the costs and charges of his confinement, as are given by law in the case of poor and impotent persons becoming chargeable to any town.28 ° Lunatics, how Section 4.—In case of the refusal or neglect of any secured. committee of such lunatic or mad person, or of his re- latives, to confine and maintain such person as afore- said, or when there is no such committee or relative of sufficient ability, it shall be the duty of the Over- seers of the Poor of the city or town, where any lunatic or mad person shall be found, to apply to any two Justices of the Peace of the same city or town, who, upon being satisfied, upon examination, that it would be dangerous to permit such lunatic to go at large, shall issue their warrant, directed to the Constables and Overseers of the Poor of such city or town, com- manding them to cause such lunatic, or mad person, to be apprehended, and to be safely locked up and con- fined in such secure place as may be provided by the Overseers of the Poor to whom the same shall be directed, within the town or city of which such Over- seers may be officers, or within the county in which 27 Laws 1827, p. 319, section 5.—28 Id. o The provisions of these sections are modified by section 20 of chapter 135, of the laws of 1842, which requires that in every case of lunacy provided for in this article, the lunatic shall within ten days be sent to the State Lunatic Asylum, or to such private asylum as may be approved by a standing order of the Board of Supervisors of the county.—See post. Art. 2 & 19 ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. 21 such city or town may be situated, or in the county poor-house in those counties where such houses are established, or in such private or public asylum as may be approved by any standing order or resolu- tion of the Supervisors of the county in which such city or town may be situated, or in the Lunatic Asylum in the city of New York. (As amended 1838; Ch. 218. )g Section 5.—It shall be the duty of the Overseers i>uty of Over- of the Poor to whom such warrant shall be directed,seers' to procure a suitable place for the confinement of such lunatic, as therein directed, pursuant to the preceding section.29 Section 6.—No person who, by reason of lunacy How and when or otherwise, is furiously mad, or so far disordered ^6^0 £*Li" in his mind as to be dangerous if permitted to go at large, shall be committed as a disorderly person to • any prison, jail, house of correction, or confined therein, unless an agreement shall have been made for that purpose with the keepers thereof ; or in any other way than as is herein directed.3 ° Section 7.—No such lunatic or mad person, or per- in wiiat man- son disordered in his senses, shall be confined in the tunVto fbe ^on' same room with any person charged with or con- fined. victed of any crime ; nor shall such person be con- fined in any jail more than four weeks ; and if he continue furiously mad or dangerous, he shall be sent to the Asylum in New York, or to the county poor-house, or alms-house, or other place provided for the reception of lunatics by the County Superin- tendents.31 Section 8.—Any two Justices of the Peace of the Powe™ of two city or town where any such lunatic or mad person fngtiunl{fCaecur" shall be found, may, without the application of any of the Overseers of the Poor, and upon their own view, or upon the information or oath of others, whenever they deem it necessary, issue their warrant for the apprehension and confinement of such lunatic or mad person, as aforesaid.32 Section 9.—The county Superintendents of the Poor of any county, and any Overseers of the Poor of any town to which any person shall be chargeable, who shall be or become a lunatic, may send such person to the Lunatic Asylum in the city of New be ^"°tat£f ^** York, by an order under their hands. York Asylum. o See ante, p. 37.—*9 Laws of 1827, p. 319, §1.—30 Laws of 1827, p. 319, § 4.—31 Laws of 1827, p. 319. $§ 1 & 2.—3i I. R. L. 116. § 6. 22 ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. Expense there- sECTIOn 10.— The expense of sending any lunatic ot, ana ot luna- 1_ -• a ±*„„. v.,'^ tics-support, to the Asylum at New York, and of supporting nim there, shall be defrayed by the county or town to which he may be chargeable. If chargeable to a county or to any town whose poor-moneys are re- quired to be paid into the county treasury, such ex- pense shall be paid by the county Treasurer out of the funds appropriated to the support of the poor belonging to such county or town, after being allowed and t certified by the county Superintendents. If such lunatic be chargeable to a town whose poor- moneys are not required to be paid into the county treasury, such expense shall be paid by the Over- seers of the Poor thereof. Penalty for con- Section 11.—Any Overseer of the Poor, constable, fining lunatics, keeper of a jail> or oiher person, who shall confine any such lunatic or mad person in any other manner or in any other place than such as are herein pre- scribed, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor ; and on conviction, shall be liable to a fine not ex- ceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to imprison- ment not exceeding one year, or to both, in the dis- cretion of the court before which the conviction shall be had. PowerRofChan- Section 12.—None of the foregoing provisions affected0* t0 be shall be deemed to restrain or abridge the power and authority of the Supreme Court concerning the safe keeping of any lunatics, or the charge of their persons or estates. committee of Section 13.—The Overseers of the Poor of any city a lunatic, how , i -n i_ j.i -i ■ i in compelled to con-or town, shall have the same remedies to compel the fine him, etc. committee of the estate of any lunatic to confine and maintain such lunatic or mad person, and to collect of such committee the costs and charges of his con- finement and support, as are given in the preceding sections against the relatives of such lunatic. And the Court of Sessions of the city or county shall make orders against such committee personally, and enforce them in the same manner as against the relatives of any poor person, so long as such com- mittee hath any property in his hands for the sup- port of such lunatic. Powers of Coun- Section 14.—The county Superintendents of the ty ^superintend-Poor ghall have all the powers and authority herein given to Overseers of the Poor of any town, BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. Be it ordained by the Governors of the Society of the New York Hospital, and it is hereby ordained by au- thority of the same, That the following rules and regu- lations be, and they are hereby established, as laws and ordinances of the said corporation ; and that all other by-laws, rules and regulations heretofore made, be and the same are hereby repealed. CHAPTER I. OF THE ELECTION OF GOVERNORS AND OFFICERS. 1. On the third Tuesday in May, in each year, an election shall be held at the New York Hospital, for twenty-six Governors of the Societ}^ of the New York Hospital, at which election three Inspectors (being members and not Governors), to be appointed by the Governors, at the stated meetings immediately preced- ing the election, or such of them as may attend, shall preside. But in case none of them should attend, then the members of the Society convened shall ap- point any two of their number to act as Inspectors, and preside at the said election. 2. The poll of the said election for Governors shall be opened at noon, and closed at any such time after two o'clock in the afternoon, as the Inspectors may 24 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. determine ; and every member of this corporation who shall vote at the said election, shall deliver either in person, or by his agent duly authorized thereto, under his hand and seal, to the Inspectors a ballot containing the names of not more than twenty-six persons as Governors ; and the Inspectors shall deposit all the ballots so delivered to them in a box • and shall insert the names of the persons so voting as aforesaid, in a poll-list, to be kept by them for that purpose. And so soon as the poll of the said election shall be closed, the Inspectors shall open and count the said ballots, and shall openly declare the names of the twenty-six per- sons who shall be found to have been elected Govern- ors by the greatest majority of all the votes given ; and shall deliver a certificate thereof, under their hands, to the Secretary, to be by him laid before the Govern- ors at their next meeting;. 3. In case the election of any of the said Govern- ors shall be declared void, such Governor shall be removed from the exercise of his office. And when- ever any Governor shall for any reason be removed, or shall die, or resign, or refuse, or neglect to act in and execute the office for which he was chosen, then the Governors, at their next monthly meeting, after it shall have been ascertained and recorded in their book of minutes that the office has become vacant, or as soon after that monthly meeting as may be convenient, shall elect by ballot another member of this corpora- tion to fill said vacancy ; but no person shall be thus elected unless by a majority of the whole number of Governors then in office. 4. At the first meeting of the Governors, which BY-LAWS AND BEGVLATIONS. 25 shall be the day after every annual election, there shall be chosen by ballot, by a majority of all the Govern- ors, one President, one Vice-President, one Treasurer and one Secretary. CHAPTER II. OF THE OATH OR AFFIRMATION TO BE TAKEN BY THE OFFICERS OF THIS CORPORATION. 1. The President and Vice-President for the time being, and the President and Vice-President of the preceding year, shall respectively have power to ad- minister to each of the officers mentioned in the next section, an oath or affirmation of the tenor following, viz.: " I do swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully and duly execute the office of of the Society of the New*York Hospital, according to the best of my ability." 2. Every President, Vice-President, Governor, Treas- urer and Secretary shall take the said oath or affir- mation, before he act in his office. CHAPTER III. OF THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT. 1. The President may call a meeting of the Gov- ernors whenever he shall think necessary, and may appoint the time and place of such meeting (provided the latter shall be in the city of New York), giving at at least one day's notice thereof. 2. The President shall preside at all meetings of « 26 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. the Governors, and shall preserve order therein ; he shall nominate all committees, except such as shall be chosen by ballot. 3. When the office of President shall be vacant, or when the President shall be absent, the Vice-Presi- dent shall succeed to all his rights and duties ; and in case of the absence of both these officers, the Govern- ors present shall appoint one of their number to pre- side at such meeting. 4. The President and Vice-President shall visit the Hospital and the Bloomingdale Asylum at least once in every month, to inspect the general state of the Institution and shall report their observations thereon to the next monthly meeting of the Governors. CHAPTER IV. OF THE GOVERNORS. 1. A monthly meeting of the Governors shall be held in the Governors' room, at the Hospital, on the first Tuesday in every month, at such hour as the Board of Governors shall from time to time determine by resolution ; and in case such Tuesday shall fall on the 1st January, or 4th July, the meeting shall be held on the day following. 2. Seven Governors, including the President or Vice-President, or chairman for the time being, shall be a quorum for transacting all business, except the election of officers, physicians and surgeons, the alien- ating any of the real or personal estate of the corpora- tion, or the leasing any of the real or mixed estate BY-LAWS AXD REGULATIONS. 27 thereof for a longer term than one year, or for the suspending or discharging an officer, physician, or surgeon, for which purposes the consent of a majority of all the Governors shall be necessary. 3. The Governors shall annually elect, by ballot, six physicians and six surgeons to the Hospital, and also a physician and an assistant physician to have the sole care of the insane in the Bloomingdale Asylum, who shall receive commissions under the seal of the corporation ; and every physician and surgeon, here- after to be elected, shall hold his office until the first stated monthly meeting of the Governors, to be held after the next ensuing annual election, and until a new election shall be had. But no person shall be appointed physician or surgeon unless he shall have been nomi- nated to that place at a previous monthly meeting. 4. If any officer, physician or surgeon shall become unfit to execute his office, or shall misdemean himself in his office, contrary to any of the by-laws of this cor- poration, or refuse or neglect to execute the same, the Visiting Committee, or any member of the corpora- tion, may exhibit against him a complaint in writing to the Governors, at a legal meeting ; and thereupon a notice of the said complaint shall be given to the per- son complained of, and a time shall be appointed (not less than six days after service of said notice) for the person complained of to make his defense before the Governors ; and the Governors, having examined into the truth of the complaint, and heard the defense of the party accused, if any shall be made, may, with the concurrence and approbation of a majority of the 28 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. whole number of Governors, upon such examination and due proof, suspend or discharge the officer, physi- cian, or surgeon, complained of as aforesaid. 5. At the monthly meeting in June, in each year, the Governors shall elect, by ballot, a Committee of the Bloomingdale Asylum, and also a person or per- sons to supply the Hospital with medicines. They shall appoint a Superintendent or Steward, Matron, Assistant Superintendent, Chaplain, Apothecary, Clerk, Librarian, Engineer, Curator of the Pathological Cabinet and Clini- cal Registrar for the Hospital; also a Warden and Matron for the Bloomingdale Asylum, who shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the Gov- ernors. 6. There shall also be appointed at the same meet- ing a committee, to be' denominated the Cabinet Com- mittee, to consist of two of the Governors, two surgeons, and one physician of the Hospital, whose duty it shall be to have the general care and superintendence of the cabinet, and of all surgical instruments and apparatus, and to report to the monthly meeting of the Governors, in January of each year, the general condition of the same, with an account of the expenses thereof re- spectively. 7. At the same monthly meeting of the Governors, a committee shall be appointed, to be denominated the Library Committee, to consist of three of the Govern- ors, one physician and one surgeon of the Hospital, whose duty it shall be to purchase books, to take the general care and superintendence of the library, and to report to the monthly meeting of the Governors in January, in each year, a statement of the amount re- BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 29 ceived and expended on account of the library during the year. 8. At the same meeting there shall be appointed a committee, to be denominated the Committee on Heat and Ventilation, to consist of three Governors, who shall have the supervision an$ charge of all that belongs to the heating and ventilation of all the wards and other apartments, and the supply of hot and cold water thereto ; they shall have the charge of the steam machinery and apparatus, of the proper adjustment of all the registers and fixtures, so as to insure the constant and regular heat and ventilation of the wards and other apartments ; also, of the cold air shafts and air chambers, in order that they may be kept perfectly clean and in good condition, and admit a full supply of wholesome air ; also, of the machinery for the laundry rooms and cooking apparatus, and of that which fur- nishes hot and cold water for the water-closets, baths, and for other uses. They shall also purchase all the fuel for the Hospital. It shall be the duty of the com- mittee to nominate to the Board for appointment, a suitable person for engineer. In case of necessity, they shall have power to appoint an assistant to the en- gineer, at such wages as they may deem reasonable, and to suspend any person so employed, for misconduct or neglect of duty, and temporarily to supply the va- cancy till the pleasure of the Board can be known. They shall keep a book of minutes, and 'enter therein their proceedings relative to all the objects of their ap- pointment, which book shall be laid before the Gov- ernors at every monthly meeting. 8 a. At the same meeting there shall be appointed a 30 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. committee, to be denominated the Real Estate Com- mittee, to consist of five Governors, who shall have the general supervision and charge of all the real estate and all leases of the Society of the New York Hos- pital, as well as all legal proceedings to which the Hos- pital or its Governors as such may be parties or in anywise interested*; and all questions relating to the real estate, rents, taxes, assessments, leases, tenants or persons claiming any rights or interests in or to any of the real estate of the Hospital shall be referred to this committee. 9. There shall be a Visiting Committee, to consist of three Governors, to serve three months, one of them to be appointed at each monthly meeting, in place of the one whose term of service shall then expire. There shall also be an Inspecting Committee, to consist of two Governors, to serve two months, one of them to be appointed at each monthly meeting, in place of the one whose term of service shall then expire. 10. At the monthly meeting in December in each year, a committee shall be appointed to audit the ac- counts of the Hospital, and to make an inventory of all the real and personal estate belonging to the cor- poration, a schedule of all the deeds, bonds, etc., in the custody of the Treasurer, and a general statement of the accounts ; which inventory, schedule and state- ment, shall be made up and produced by them at the next monthly meeting, or at the one following ; and another committee shall also be appointed to draft the annual report of the state of the Hospital, to be laid before the Legislature. This draft shall be presented to the Governors at their monthly meeting in Febru- BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 31 ary, or at a special meeting during that month. One of the Governors, one physician and one surgeon shall be appointed to prepare a table of the diseases of the patients in the Hospital during the year. 11. Every committee, whether standing or special, shall report in writing upon every subject referred to them. 12. At each monthly meeting the minutes of the Visiting Committee, of the Inspecting Committee, of the Bloomingdale Asylum Committee, and of the Committee on Heat and Ventilation, shall be produced, that the Governors may be informed of their pro- ceedings. 13. The Governors' room shall be kept solely for the use of the Governors, and no other person shall be permitted to use it, without the permission of the Vis- iting Committee. CHAPTER V. OF THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 1. No person shall be qualified to be elected a member of this corporation unless he shall have paid to the Treasurer $40 for the use of the Hospital; and whenever a Governor shall propose such person to be elected a member of this corporation, he shall be bal- loted for at a monthly meeting of the Governors ; and if there shall be a majority of the whole number of Governors in his favor, he shall be duly elected, and shall be admitted a member, and receive from the Sec- retary a certificate of such election, under the common seal. The Governors may, however, in any particular instance, dispense with said payment. 32 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. CHAPTER VI. OF THE TREASURER. 1. The Treasurer shall have the custody of all bonds, title-deeds, and other papers and documents relating to the property of the corporation. 2. He shall open an account with one of the banks in the city of New York, in the name of this corpora- tion ; and he shall deposit all moneys, immediately upon his receiving them, in such bank. 3. He shall keep a book containing blank checks ; and in drawing for money he shall use the said checks, and insert in the margin opposite to them respectively, their amounts and dates, and the names of the per- sons to whom they are payable, and on what account. 4. He shall cause a book to be kept for the sole purpose of keeping an account with the bank ; and he shall cause to be entered in such book all deposits made and checks drawn, with their amounts, dates, and the names of the persons to whom they are pay- able. 5. The Treasurer shall pay no moneys without a resolution of the Board of Governors, or a written order from the Visiting Committee, or from the Com- mittee of the Bloomingdale Asylum, for expenditures in their department. 6. The Treasurer shall cause to be kept at the Hospital a journal and a ledger, in which shall be contained an account of receipts, an account of expen- BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 33 ditures, an account with the bank, an account with the Superintendent, and such other accounts as may be necessary. CHAPTER VII. OF THE SECRETARY. 1. The Secretary shall have the custody of the seal of the corporation. 2. He shall attend the meetings of the Society and of the Governors, take minutes of the proceedings of each meeting, and see that the Clerk transcribes them into a book provided for that purpose. 3. Immediately after the election of Governors and other officers, he shall give notice to the different per- sons elected. 4. On the day preceding every meeting, stated or special, he shall send notice of the time and place of such meeting to each of the Governors. 5. At every monthly meeting he, or the Secretary pro tern., shall read the minutes of the preceding meeting at length. 6. He shall cause the reports to the Legislature, and the annual state of the Hospital, to be regularly entered upon the minutes. ' 7. He shall furnish certificates to the members of the corporation in the manner prescribed by the by- laws. 34 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. CHAPTER VIII. OF THE VISITING COMMITTEE. 1. The Visiting Committee shall meet once in every week, at the Hospital. If any member of the Committee shall be unable to attend, it shall be his duty to procure some other Governor to attend in his stead. 2. They shall receive or reject applicants for ad- mission, as in their discretion they shall think advisa- ble, having regard to the existing circumstances of the Hospital; but they shall admit no person, without a previous examination by one of the Physicians and Surgeons, or by the House-Physician, or House- Surgeon. 3. They shall also determine whether the appli- cant shall be received as a pauper or pay-patient; and in the latter case, they shall agree upon the price to be paid weekly, and take such security as they may deem requisite ; but this and the last preceding article shall not apply to the admission of patients into the Bloomingdale Asylum, which is solely intrusted to the Asylum Committee. 4. They shall carefully inquire of every pauper previous to admittance, whether he arrived at this port within five years, in order, if that shall appear to- be the fact, that they may be placed under care of the proper authorities, unless their admission in the Hos- pital shall be provided for. 5. They shall keep a book of minutes, and enter BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 35 therein such business as may come before them ; which book must be laid before the Governors at every monthly meeting. They shall also direct the names of all patients received or discharged, to be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose. 6. They shall give such orders and establish such regulations, as they shall think proper to carry into effect the objects of this Institution ; provided such or- ders and regulations be not inconsistent with the char- ter and by-laws. 7. On every visiting day, they shall inquire of the Physicians and Surgeons, or, in their absence, of the House-Physician or House-Surgeons, whether any of the pauper patients are incurable, or in a condition to leave the Hospital; and shall direct all such to be dis- charged, so that no improper objects be permitted to remain. 8. The Committee may direct the Superintendent to give some relief, in money or clothes, to patients who, from extreme poverty or circumstances of pecu- liar distress, may need such aid at the time of their discharge. But they are to exercise great caution in affording such assistance, lest it should encourage im- proper or too frequent applications. 9. If any patient shall go off the premises without leave, be disorderly, or otherwise misbehave, the Com- mittee may, at their discretion, discharge him. 10. They shall take care that the patients in each ward are supplied with Bibles, and such other religious and proper books as they may think useful. 36 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 11. They shall frequently remind the Superintend- ent and other officers of the house, of the necessity of attention, economy, cleanliness, and good conduct in the discharge of their several duties. 12. Whenever they may think it necessary that a special meeting of the Governors should be called, they shall apply for that purpose to the President, or in his absence, to the Vice-President. 13. In case the House-Physician, House-Surgeons, or any of their assistants, or Apothecary, shall neglect any of the duties prescribed to them, or refuse to com- ply with any reasonable request of the Visiting Com- mittee or Superintendent, the Visiting Committee may suspend the offender, and report the case to the next monthly meeting of the Governors ; and the vacancy, in the meantime, shall be supplied by such person as the Committee may appoint. 14. The Committee shall, on each visiting day, in- sert in a book kept for that purpose, the times of their own attendance, of that of the Physicians and Surgeons and of the senior and junior assistants. 15. The Visiting Committee shall have the charge and care of the property of the Hospital, and the general superintendence of the buildings and other im- provements belonging to this corporation, except the Bloomingdale Asylum, and it shall be their duty to see that all such repairs or alterations as may be di- rected by the Governors, be faithfully and economical- ly executed. No expenditure shall be made by this Committee exceeding the sum of $100, unless by au- thority of the Board. BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 37 CHAPTER IX. OF THE INSPECTING COMMITTEE. 1. It shall be the duty of the Inspecting Committee to inquire whether the by-laws and regulations of the Governors relative to the management and economy of the house, are carried into effect. 2. They shall visit the wards, dead-house, museum, library, apothecary's shop, kitchen, store-room, and grounds of the Hospital, at least once a week, and also the wards, rooms, other apartments and grounds of the Bloomingdale Asylum, at least once a month ; inquire into the behavior of the Superintendent, War- den, Matrons, Attendants, and Nurses, toward the patients; examine particularly whether economy be observed ; and as to the cleanliness of the halls, wards, apartments and beds ; whether the floors are frequent- ly washed and the walls cleansed ; whether the bread and other provisions are of good quality ; whether the patients are allowed a sufficient quantity ; whether they are regularly attended by the Physicians and Surgeons ; and whether the Apothecary's shop be kept neat and in good order. They shall also inquire whether any improvements can be made for the greater comfort of the patients. 3. They shall inquire particularly whether the wards, water-closets, bathing-closets, and dead-house are kept in good condition and are properly ventilated, and fully supplied with pure and wholesome air, and also see that the grounds are kept in good order. 38 BY-LAAVS AND REGULATIONS. 4. At least once in each month, they shall examine the House-Physician and House-Surgeons, as to the performance of their respective duties, and as to the daily attendance and behavior of the assistants in- tended as candidates for the offices of House-Physician and House-Surgeon. 5. They shall keep a book of minutes, and enter therein their proceedings and observations relative to all the objects of their appointment, which book shall be laid before the Governors at every monthly meet- ing ; and also before the Visiting Committee at their regular meetings. CHAPTER X. OF THE CONSULTING PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. 1. The Consulting Physicians and Surgeons shall be considered as counsellors, and shall be invited to attend at all capital operations in the Hospital. 2. They may recommend persons to be admitted as patients, in like manner as the Governors. 3. Each Consulting Physician and Surgeon shall have the privilege of introducing students gratis to see the practice of the house, in the manner prescribed in Chapter XIV. CHAPTER XI. OF THE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. 1. The Physicians and Surgeons shall make such arrangement among themselves, that the Hospital may be attended in the manner hereinafter directed. BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 39 2. One physician shall visit every medical patient who may be afflicted with an acute disease, at least once every day, and oftener if necessary ; and every medical patient in the Hospital, without exception, twice in every week. 3. At such visits, the Attending Physician shall in- quire whether his directions and prescriptions have been carefully observed. He shall attend to the neat- ness and ventilation of the wards, and give such di- rections on those subjects as may be necessary, to the Superintendent. He shall direct the House-Physician to report to the Superintendent such patients as are in a proper condition to leave the Hospital. 4. Two surgeons shall constantly be in attendance on the Hospital, one of whom shall have the charge of the first surgical division. The other surgeon shall have charge of the second surgical division, and no change shall be made in the division without the sanc- tion of the Visiting Committee, to be reported to the Board for their confirmation. The choice of attend- ance for the term, on either of these two divisions, shall be settled by agreement between themselves, or by lot. They shall both visit the Hospital at least three times a week, and oftener when necessary, and every surgical patient under their care respectively, without exception, at least once a week. At such visits, they shall attend to the ventilation and neat- ness of the surgical wards, and give such directions on these subjects as may be necessary, to the Superintend- ent, and they shall direct their respective House-Sur- geons to report to him such surgical patients as may be in a proper condition to leave the Hospital. 40 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 5. The times of their attendance shall be so ar- ranged by the Physicians and Surgeons, respectively, as not to interfere with each other, and so that the students who attend the practice of the house may ac- company them in their visits to the patients. 6. It shall be their duty, during their respective terms of attendance, to prescribe and direct the treat- ment of all the patients under their care ; but in case of emergency, admitting of no delay, the Attending Physician or Surgeons being absent, the House-Physi- cian or House-Surgeons may prescribe and report to the Attending-Physician or Surgeons at their first visit. 7. If any Physician or Surgeon shall be prevented from attending in his turn, he shall procure one of the other Physicians or Surgeons belonging to the Hospi- tal to attend in his stead. 8. At least one Physician and one Surgeon shall be present at the regular meetings of the Visiting Com- mittee, to confer with them on the management of the house, and to examine applicants for admission. 9. No capital operation, except in cases of imme- diate danger, shall be performed without the previous approbation of at least two.surgeons, nor without in- viting all the Physicians and Surgeons belonging to the Hospital to be present at the operation ; nor shall any operation be performed other than by the Attending Surgeons, except in cases of imminent danger, and in their absence, when the House-Surgeons may act. 10. Each of the Attending Physicians and Surgeons shall report in writing to the Governors, after his tour BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 41 of attendance is completed, the general condition of the Hospital during that period ; and this report shall state whether the House-Physician and the House-Sur- geons, and their Assistants, and the Apothecary, have discharged their respective duties with skill and fidel- ity ; and whether the nurses have treated the sick with care and humanity, and shall also contain such suggestions and remarks as shall appear to him to be useful. 11. At the close of every year, a table of the dis- eases of the patients in the Hospital, and in the Bloomingdale Asylum, during the year then expired, shall be made out and duly arranged, in order that the same may be published with the general account of the state of the Hospital ; which table shall be pre- pared by one of the Governors, one Physician, and one Surgeon, to be appointed for that purpose by the Governors. 12. In order to render the Hospital, so far as may consist with the welfare of the patients, conducive to the advancement of medical science, the Physicians and Surgeons may provide among themselves adequate and regular practical instruction, by observations ac- companying operations and prescriptions, by clinical lectures, or otherwise, to the students admitted to see the practice of the house. Due notice of the time and period of such instruction shall be given, and, when announced, shall be punctually observed. 13. It shall be the express duty of the Physician or Surgeon to guard against any examinations of pa- tients by pupils except under his own inspection ; and 42 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. against all acts calculated to alarm or injure the pa- tients ; and in cases where any observations in their presence might have an injurious tendency, they shall be postponed to the halls or theatre. CHAPTER XII. OF THE HOUSE-PHYSICIAN AND HOUSE-SURGEONS. 1. There shall be appointed one House-Physician and two House-Surgeons, each of whom shall serve eight months. The Visiting Committee shall assign to the House-Surgeons the division of the Hospital in which they shall respectively serve. No person shall be ap- pointed to the office of House-Physician, or of House- Surgeon, until he shall have attained the age of twen- ty-one years, nor until he shall have laid before the Governors satisfactory testimonials of his good moral character, and also a certificate in the following form : " We do hereby certify, that A. B. hath been a pri- vate pupil of C. D., a practicing physician (or surgeon, as the case may be), for the space of three years, that he has passed his examination for a degree, or for a li- cense ; that we believe him to possess skill and ability to execute the office of a House-Physician (or House- Surgeon, as the case may be), and that he has kept the prescribed register to our satisfaction, and we do re- commend him to the Governors for said office." Which certificate shall be signed by at least three Physicians of the Hospital, if the candidate be recommended for the office of House-Physician, and by at least four Sur- geons of the Hospital, if he be recommended for the BY-LA AYS AND REGULATIONS. 43 office of House-Surgeon. He shall also, before his ap- pointment, sign the following obligation : "This is to certify thafc I (A. B.), a candidate for the office of House-Physician (or House-Surgeon, as the case may be), have carefully read the by-laws and re- gulations of the New York Hospital, and do pledge myself to a faithful compliance therewith for the full term specified, if I should be appointed to the said office. Signed, A. B," 2. The House-Physician and House-Surgeons shall visit their respective wards once at least every morn- ing and evening ; and be prepared to report the state of the patients to the Visiting Physician and Surgeons. They shall record all prescriptions and directions for their administration in books to be kept for that pur- pose, of which there shall be one for each ward, and it shall be their duty to send the same to the Apothe- cary's shop at or before ten o'clock a. m. and at or be- fore six o'clock p. M. every day. They shall see that the medicines sent to the sick are regularly taken, and that they are administered with care and neatness, and without delay. There shall also be a diet-book for each ward, in which shall be recorded all orders for the supply of food and liquors ; these orders must designate whether they are extra supplies to be added to the or- dinary diet of the patients, or restricted supplies to be given as a substitute therefor. The diet-book shall be sent to the store-room at or before ten o'clock a. m., and submitted to the Attending Physician or Surgeon, at the meetings of the Visiting Committee. When in cases of emergency it may be necessary to issue a spe- 44 BY-LAAVS AND REGULATIONS. cial order, an entry must be made at the same time in the prescription or diet-book, and the order be marked as entered. 3. In any medical or surgical case of emergency, the House-Physician and House-Surgeon shall request the immediate attendance of the Attending Physician or Surgeon, and if he cannot be found, of any other of the Physicians or Surgeons of the Hospital. 4. They shall make the entries in the admission and discharge books, according to the prescribed forms, review and correct the cases taken and copied by the assistants, and report the same, when completed, to the Attending Physician or Surgeon at his next visit. 5. The House-Physician and House-Surgeons shall in no case substitute their assistants in their place for the performance of any duty specially incumbent on themselves, except in cases of sudden sickness or other emergency, or by permission of the Visiting Commit- tee or the Attending Physician and Surgeon. 6. They shall not remove patients from one ward into another, without the approbation of the Superin- tendent. 7. It shall be their duty to report the disease of which any patient dies, to the Clerk, in order that the register may be regularly kept. 8. They shall examine patients applying for admis- sion, and report the result in writing to the Visiting Committee when in session, and, during their recess, to the Superintendent, who shall submit the same to the Committee at their next meeting. BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 45 The House-Surgeons shall perform this duty alter- nately for one week at a time. They shall also have charge, alternately, of the ward for the reception of patients admitted during the night, for the same pe- riod, and shall examine such cases without delay on receiving notice thereof; so arranging that both duties shall not devolve simultaneously upon one House- Surgeon. 9. Neither the House-Physician nor House-Sur- geons shall discharge a patient; this being the exclu- sive duty of the Superintendent. 10. They shall not be absent at the usual hours of attendance of the Physicians and Surgeons ; and when- ever either of them intends to go off the premises, he shall leave notice with the Superintendent, and the House-Physician, or House-Surgeon, where he may be found. The House-Surgeons shall in no case be absent from the house at the same time. The House-Physician shall never be absent without leaving his Senior Assist- ant in his place. Neither House-Physician nor House- Surgeon shall be absent more than two evenings in each week, nor shall they ever leave the city without the consent of the Visiting Committee. They must be in the Hospital at a seasonable hour in the evening, and never sleep out of the house. 11. They shall not engage in any bother business than that of the Hospital, nor shall they practice out of the house. 12. The House-Physician and House-Surgeons shall have charge of all instruments and apparatus belong- ing to their respective divisions, and shall be responsi- 46 BY-LAAVS AND REGULATIONS. ble for them, and for their good order. They shall keep an account of them, stating when and from whom they were received, and their prices, and shall never suffer them to be lent or used out of the Hospital. They shall, on giving up their charge, furnish to their successors an inventory of all the instruments and apparatus belonging to their divisions, which inven- tory shall be countersigned by their successors, and exhibited to the Visiting Committee and the Cabinet Committee, under whose direction it shall be kept on file. 13. Each House-Surgeon shall keep a pass-book, in which shall be entered a statement of all new instru- ments which shall be ordered for the use of the Hos- pital. 14. It shall be the particular duty of the House- Physician or House-Surgeon (as the case may be medi- cal or surgical), to attend to the faithful application of the baths, at the temperature and in the manner prescribed by the Attending Physician or Surgeons. 15. Each House-Physician and House-Surgeon, at the termination of his service, provided he shall have performed the duties of his office faithfully, and for the full term of his appointment, to the satisfaction of the Governors, shall receive from them a certificate thereof, under thej-seal of the corporation. BY-LAAVS AND REGULATIONS. 47 CHAPTER XIII. OF THE ASSISTANTS TO THE HOUSE-PHYSICIAN AND HOUSE- SURGEONS. 1. At the monthly meeting in December, 1856, and subsequently at intervals of eight months thereafter, there shall be appointed one Senior and one Junior Assistant to the House-Physician, and one Senior and one Junior Assistant to each House-Surgeon. The term of service of the Assistants to the House-Surgeons shall be equally divided between them, in such manner as the Visiting Committee shall from time to time di- rect. Every person to be appointed a Senior Assist- ant, shall have walked the house eight months as a Junior, before he shall be eligible to the office of Senior Assistant; so that the Assistant who may be so ap- pointed, shall walk the house sixteen months before he shall be eligible to the office of House-Physician, or House-Surgeon, as the case may be; and no person shall be appointed Assistant to the House-Physician, or to either of the House-Surgeons, until he shall have laid before the Governors a certificate—in the case " of a candidate for the office of Senior Assistant, as follows : "We do hereby certify, that A. B. hath been a pri- vate pupil of C. D., a practicing physician (or surgeon, as the case may be), for the space of three years, that he has passed his examination for a degree, or for a license, and that we believe him to be well qualified for a Senior Assistant to the House-Physician (or House- Surgeon, as the case may be), and we do recommend 48 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. him to the Governors for said office." And in the case of a candidate for the office of Junior Assistant : " We do hereby certify, that A. B. hath been a private pu- pil of C. D., a practicing physician (or surgeon, as the case may be), for three years, and has passed his ex- amination for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, or for a license, and we do further certify, that on the day of , at a meeting held at [here insert the place of meeting] to which all the Physicians (or Surgeons, as the case may be) of the Hospital were invited, and at which we were present, we did examine the said A. B., that we believe him to be well qualified for a Junior Assist- ant to the House-Physician (or House-Surgeon, as the case may be), and we do recommend him to the Gov- ernors for said office." Which certificate for Senior and Junior Assistants, respectively, shall in each case be signed by at least two Physicians of the Hospital, if the candidate be recommended for the office of As- sistant to the House-Physician, and by at least three Surgeons of the Hospital, if recommended for Assistant to a House-Surgeon. Before his appointment he shall sign the following obligation : " Tnis is to certify that I, A. B., a candidate for the office of Senior or Juuior Assistant to the House-Physician, or House-Surgeon (as the case may be), have carefully read the by-laws and regulations of the New York Hospital, and do pledge myself to a faithful compliance therewith for the full time specified, if I should be appointed to said office. " Signed A. B." 2. The Assistants shall respectively attend the House-Physician and House-Surgeons in their morning BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 49 visits to the patients, and they shall also be present at the regular visit of the Attending Physician or Sur- geon, and at such other times as he may direct. It shall be their further duty to attend and aid the Cura- tor in all the post-mortem examinations of cases taken from the division to which they respectively belong. 3. The Senior Assistant to the House-Physician shall reside in and never sleep out of the house, nor shall he ever be absent from the house at the same time with the House-Physician. He shall under the direction of the Attending Physician and the general supervis- ion of the Clinical Registrar, keep a record of all medical cases which occur in the Hospital. In this record shall be entered the name, age and occupation of each patient, the probable cause and history of his disease, the remedies used before and after his admis- sion, the name of the Attending Physician or Surgeon, his daily reports on the case, the termination of the disease, either in recovery, relief or death, and such other circumstances as may tend to illustrate the case and the nature of the disease. 4. Each of the Senior Assistants to the House Sur- geons, shall, under the directions of the Surgeons at- tending on their respective divisions and the general supervision of the Clinical Registrar, keep a similar report of the chirurgical cases in their respective divi- sions, and shall record all operations therein. It shall be the duty of the respective Junior As- sistants to transcribe, in a neat and legible manner, every such record, when completed, into the case- books ; said books shall be deposited in the Library. 50 BY-LAAVS AND REGULATIONS. 5. It shall be the duty of the Senior Assistants to visit applicants for admission into the Hospital, at their dwellings, when their cases require it, and to report to the Superintendent. Each Senior Surgical Assistant shall perform this duty, alternately, for one week. 6. No such Medical or Surgical Assistant shall be eligible to the office of House-Physician, or House-Sur- geon, unless he shall have kept the prescribed register to the satisfaction of the Attending Physicians and Surgeons respectively, which shall be duly certified to the Board of Governors by the Physicians or Surgeons before his election. 7. Examinations of candidates for appointment to the post of Junior Assistant shall be held at the Hos- pital, or such other place as may be designated, and due public notice of the same shall be given by the Physicians and Surgeons. Every candidate must have passed his examination for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, or for a license, and must present a written recommendation from one of the Physicians or Surgeons of the Hospital. Each Physician and Surgeon shall be entitled to recommend three candidates for their respective de- partments. BY-LAAVS AND REGULATIONS. 51 CHAPTER XIV, OF PRACTITIONERS AND STUDENTS ADMITTED TO SEE THE PRACTICE OF THE HOUSE. 1. Any practitioner or student of medicine, on the joint recommendation and request of the Physician and Surgeons in attendance, or a majority of them, may receive a ticket of admission to follow the practice of the Hospital, for not more than one year, to be issued by the Superintendent. Before receiving his ticket, the applicant shall sign an obligation to obey in all respects the by-laws and regulations of the Hospital. The modifying or revoking of this privilege shall be under the control of the Visiting Committee. 2. Any practitioner or student holding a ticket to follow the practice of the Hospital, shall be entitled to the use of the Library for one year, on payment to the Treasurer of the sum of five dollars. 3. No student shall be entitled to visit the Bloom- ingdale Asylum, without leave from the physician of the Asylum, or one of the Asylum Committee. 4. No student shall be entitled to attend the Hos- pital, except at the hours of prescription, operation, or lecture. Every student shall produce his ticket to the porter at thegate, and shall behave with decorum and propriety. And if any student shall infringe any of the regulations of the Hospital, or be guilty of im- proper conduct, it shall be the duty of the Superin- tendent to report him to the Visiting Committee, who 52 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. may give orders to exclude him in future from the Hospital. And that he may be informed of the regu- lations to which he is subject, every student shall be furnished by the Superintendent with a copy of this by-law. CHAPTER XV. OF THE APOTHECARY. 1. The Apothecary shall compound and make up all medicines prescribed, agreeably to the formulae from time to time directed by' the physicians and sur- geons of the Hospital. He shall deliver no medicines or other articles which are not entered upon the pre- scription-books, and shall permit no medicines to be carried out of the house, except to patients taking their discharge, and under the direction of the attend- ing physician or surgeons. He shall put up the medicines intended for each ward separately, and shall annex to them labels, containing the names of the patients for whom they were respectively prescribed, with printed or written directions for taking them. And he shall send them to each ward by the orderly man, to be by him distributed to the patients. Ban- dages and muslins shall be kept in the Apothecary's shop, in such quantities and of such sizes as shall be directed by the attending surgeons, and the Apothecary shall keep a book in which the deliveries of the same shall be entered, with the names of the patients, and the ward to which they are sent, in order to their re- turn to him when practicable. 2, He shall regularly attend the shop, and never BY-LAAVS AND REGULATIONS. 53 be absent without the Superintendent's permission. He shall keep the shop, and everything appertaining to it, clean and in perfect order, which shall remain open from seven o'clock in the morning till eight o'clock in the evening, in his charge. He shall carefully ob- serve economy in everything relating to his depart- ment ; be particularly prudent and careful in the de- livery of medicines, and permit no patient to enter the shop unnecessarily. No liquid medicines shall be put up in larger quantity than a 4 oz. phial will contain, except infusions, decoctions, and those for external ap- plication. 3. He shall ordinarily procure the medicines re- quired for the use of the house, from the person or persons appointed by the Governors to supply them ; but it shall be his duty to ascertain the lowest market price of all important articles, and to procure them from such sources as may be most favorable, with the assent of the Visiting Committee. 4. He shall cause all medicines and other articles purchased for his department, to be immediately en- tered, by the persons of whom they were purchased, in a pass-book provided for that purpose, or in a bill of parcels, with the date, quantity, kind, and price of the articles. 5. He shall keep a daily record of meteorological observations ; and shall furnish a monthly transcript thereof to the Board, at their stated meetings, in order that an abstract may be entered on their minutes. 6. No person shall be appointed Apothecary, unless 54 BY-LAAVS AND REGULATIONS. he be twenty-one years of age, nor until he shall have produced sufficient testimonials of his good moral char- acter, and have obtained a certificate, signed by at least two physicians and two surgeons of the Hospital, in the following form : "We do hereby certify, that at a meeting held at the New York Hospital, on the day of 18 , to which all the physicians and surgeons of the said Hospital were invited, and at which we were pres- ent, we did examine A. B. and did find him competent to execute the office of Apothecary of the said Hos- pital. And we do recommend him to the Governors for that office." 7. The Apothecary shall give a bond, in the pen- alty of two hundred and fifty dollars, for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and that he will not cease to perform those duties without giving two months' notice of his intention to leave his em- ployment. CHAPTER XVI. OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OR STEWARD. 1. The Superintendent shall be the steward of the Hospital. He shall have the general charge thereof, and of all the premises, and see that the regulations of the Governors and the directions of the Visiting Committee are carried into effect. 2. He shall keep, in a book provided for that pur- pose, a regular account of all moneys received anddis- BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 55 bursed by him on behalf of the Hospital, and also to contain a record of all such contracts as he may have been authorized to make ; which book, with the vouch- ers, shall be laid before the Visiting Committee every month, for their examination. 3. All amounts coming into his hands he shall de- posit with the Treasurer, to be by him placed to the credit of the Hospital. 4. Whenever money may be required for the use of the house, he shall obtain a draft from the Visiting Committee on the Treasurer for such sums as may be, from time to time, required for that purpose ; he shall account in his statement of receipts and expendi- ture, for all moneys so received, which statement, with his vouchers, shall be laid before the Visiting Committee at their monthly meetings. 5. He shall purchase, under the directions of the Visiting Committee, provisions, and all other stores, for the use of the Hospital, except medicines. 6. He shall keep under his key, all wines, spirits, sugar, molasses, unmade linen, and blanketing, and all other stores and necessaries. 7. He shall see that the outer gates are locked at a seasonable hour every evening. 8. He shall suffer no patient to go out of the house, without his special permission. 9. He shall receive for safe keeping, any money or other valuables belonging to patients admitted into the house. 56 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 10. He shall visit every ward at least once a day, and oftener if necessary. 11. He shall have power to hire and dismiss all the nurses and servants employed in or about the Hos- pital, except the Engineer and his assistants ; subject, however, to such orders as the Visiting Committee shall think proper to give. And it shall be his duty to discharge all those who shall be guilty of profane swearing, drunkenness, bringing spirituous liquors clandestinely into the house, or other gross miscon- duct ; nor shall any nurse leave the house without his permission. And he shall report his proceedings on all these subjects to the Visiting Committee without delay. 12. He shall not permit any person whatever, ex- cepting such of the officers and servants of the Hos- pital enumerated in these regulations as are entitled thereto, and the members of his own family, to take their meals or sleep in the Hospital, or occupy any part of the premises, without express permission of the Visiting Committee, entered upon their minutes, or of the Board of Governors ; and he shall submit to the monthly meeting of the Governors a census of all per- sons employed in or upon the premises, their rates of wages, and of all persons whatsoever residing in the building, except the patients. 13. He shall take particular care that no wine or spirits are used in the Hospital, except by the direction of the physicians or surgeons, for the use of the pa- tients. BY-LAAVS AND REGULATIONS. 57 14. He shall, when there is no Chaplain in attend- ance, appoint in each ward one of the most discreet patients to read the Bible to the other patients, and he shall see that it is read conformably to the regula- tions respecting patients ; and when any patient is dangerously ill, he shall inquire whether he is desirous to converse with any religious person ; and shall in- vite the person desired by the patient to attend ; and while such person is present, shall see that the other patients in the ward behave with decorum. 15. When a patient is discharged, the Superintend- ent shall cause the name to be entered in the book provided for that purpose, mentioning the patient as cured, relieved, incurable, eloped, or disorderly, with the date of such discharge. 16. On the decease of a patient, the Superintendent shall cause the name and the time of the decease of such patient to be entered in the register, the body to be conveyed, as soon as conveniently may be, to the dead-house, and there safely kept until delivered to the hearse, or to the friends of the deceased, for inter- ment ; and he shall be particularly responsible for the execution of this duty. No post-mortem examination shall be made without the express permission of the Superintendent. And it shall be his duty to enter such examination in a register-book, which shall show the name of the deceased, disease, date, by whose re- quest, attendance of Curator, and of the Walkers, with such remarks as may be deemed of interest. 17. If the House-Physician, House-Surgeon, Clerk Apothecary, students attending the house, or other per- 58 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. sons belonging to it, shall disregard the by-laws and regulations, or otherwise misbehave, it shall be the duty of the Superintendent to report the offenders, in writing, to the Visiting Committee. 18. When a patient dies, leaving clothes or other articles of value, the Superintendent shall report the same to the Visiting Committee, who shall make a minute of such report in their book, and give him the necessary directions. CHAPTER XVII. OF THE MATRON. 1. The Matron shall visit all the wards in the Hos- pital having female nurses, every day, and see that they are properly attended by the nurses. 2. She shall oversee all the female patients and servants, and take care that the wards, apartments, beds, clothes, linen and other things are kept clean. All the patients, nurses and servants must be obedient and submissive to her. 3. She must take care of all the household goods and furniture. CHAPTER XVIII. OF THE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT. 1. It shall be the duty of the Assistant Superintend- ent to look especially to the condition of the South- House, to lodge there, and to attend to the wants and comforts of the seamen. BY-LAAVS AND REGULATIONS. 5& 2. He shall distribute regularly to the nurses of the respective wards, all the articles of food ordered for the patients ; and shall have in charge all the bedding and linen provided for their use. 3. He shall take charge of the clothing of de- ceased patients, and deliver it, when applied for, to their relatives. 4. He shall assist the Superintendent generally in the discharge of his duties, in such manner as he may direct. CHAPTER XIX. OF THE CLERK. 1. It shall be the duty of the Clerk, on the day fol- lowing every meeting of the Governors, to enter in their journal a fair copy of the minutes taken by the Secretary, together with such reports and other papers as the Secretary shall direct. 2. He shall furnish the chairman of every commit- tee appointed by the Governors, with a copy of the minutes relating to their appointment, and he shall notify every person appointed on each of the standing committees, of his appointment. 3. He shall enter in the book for recording ordi- nances, all by-laws that may from time to time be passed by the Governors ; and such entry shall be made by him immediately after the passing of said by-law. He shall also enter therein all orders enjoining special duties to be performed by any of the standing commit- 60 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. tees, or by any of the officers or servants of the Hos- pital ; which orders must be recorded in a part of said book separate from the by-laws. 4. He shall transcribe for the use of the Visiting Committee, under the direction of the Secretary, such minutes of the Governors as may relate to their duties ; and he shall copy all minutes of that committee on their day of meeting ; and shall enter in the register kept for that purpose, the admissions and discharges of patients, immediately after they have been received or discharged. 5. He shall keep the books of accounts, and col- lect all moneys due from the pay-patients, in such manner as the Treasurer may direct. 6. He shall, every three months, furnish the Secre- tary with the names of such seamen as die in the Hos- pital, to the end that they may be published. 7. He shall lay on the table in the Governors' room, at every monthly meeting, the following books, viz. : the Journal or Minutes of the Governors ; the Minutes of the Visiting Committee; the Minutes of the Inspect- ing Committee ; the Minutes of the Committee on Heat and Ventilation ; the Minutes of the Bloomingdale Asylum Committee ; the Book of By-Laws ; the Book containing the minutes of the attendance of the Visit- ing Committee, and of the Physicians and Surgeons, and of the Senior and Junior Assistants ; the Bank- Book, Journal, and Ledger, and the Census of the House. BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 61 CHAPTER XX. OF THE ORDERLY MAN. The Visiting Committee shall appoint an Orderly Man, who shall assist in the Apothecary's shop, in all things appertaining to that department. When not occupied in the Apothecary's department, he shall per- form any services for the benefit of the Hospital, re- quired of him by the Superintendent, House-Physician and House-Surgeons. CHAPTER XXI. OF THE ENGINEER.' The Engineer, under the supervision and direction of the Committee on Heat and Ventilation shall have charge of the boilers and steam machinery and apparatus of all kinds in the Hospital. He shall have the care of the tanks, hot and cold water appa- ratus and fixtures. It shall be his duty to provide an adequate supply of hot and cold water, to keep all the steam-pipes, boilers, force-pumps, washing, and other machinery and iron-work in good order and repair. He shall be responsible for the economical use of coal and of steam, and for the neat and orderly con- dition of the boiler-house and air-chambers and every- thing connected therewith. It shall be his special duty to see that a uniform temperature of 66° to 68° of Fahrenheit thermometer be maintained in all the wards during the winter, and to visit them night and day as often as may be necessary to secure this object. 62 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. The Engineer and his assistants shall be subject at all times to the direction and control of the Com- mittee on Heat and Ventilation, to that of the Visiting Committee and Superintendent, and shall report at once any misconduct or negligence of persons under him in his department. CHAPTER XXII. OF THE PATIENTS. 1. No patient shall leave the house, unless by per- mission of the Superintendent ; nor play at any game of hazard within the Hospital ; nor introduce any spirituous liquors into the house. 2. No patient shall enter the dead-house, engine rooms, kitchen, or any of the servants' apartments, under any pretence whatever, except by order of the Superintendent or Matron. 3. No male patient shall go into the women's apart- ments or wards, nor any female patient into those of the men. 4. No patient shall smoke tobacco in the house. 5. When there is no Chaplain in attendance to per- form public worship, the Superintendent, on Sunday, at ten o'clock in the morning, and at three in the after- noon, shall appoint a suitable person for each ward, to read audibly some chapters in the Bible to the patients, who are to attend thereto with decency and respect ; and it is also recommended to the patients, as often as BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 63 circumstances will permit, to read the Holy Scriptures themselves on other days of the week. 6. If any patient shall not conform to the foregoing regulations, or shall use profane or indecent language, or get drunk, or behave rudely or indecently, the Su- perintendent shall make report thereof to the Visiting Committee, who may discharge such patient; or, with the consent of a Governor, the Superintendent may immediately discharge him. 7. No officer or servant of this Institution shall ac- cept any gift or bequest from any patient, except with the approbation of the Visiting Committee. CHAPTER XXIIP. OF THE ADMISSION OF PATIENTS. 1. Any Governor, Physician, or Surgeon of the Hos- pital may recommend patients to be admitted, but the Visiting Committee may refuse or admit patients so re- commended, at their discretion. 2. In any extraordinary or pressing case, where great inconvenience would result from waiting for the approbation of the Visiting Committee, any Governor, Physician, or Surgeon of the Hospital, may direct the Superintendent to receive a patient immediately. And in case of sudden accidents, the Superintendent may receive patients without recommendation. But he must give early information of every such case to the Visit- ing Committee, who may permit the patient to remain 64 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. in the house, or not, as shall appear to them discreet and proper. 3. When the patient's case requires immediate ad- mittance, the Governor, Physician, or Surgeon, recom- mending him, will add to his recommendation the fol- lowing directions : " The Superintendent is desired to receive the person above recommended, until the Visit- ing Committee attend." 4. No person shall be admitted whose case is judged to be incurable, unless there be urgent symptoms, which, in the opinion of the attending Physician or Surgeon, are capable of being relieved ; nor any whose case does not require the particular benefits of a hos- pital ; nor shall any who have the small-pox, or measles, or any malignant, or infectious, or contagious diseases, be received into any ward with other patients. 5. Young children shall not be received with their mothers, unless such children are also patients. 6. Patients unable to pay for their board and main- tenance, may be received without charge ; but such as are able to pay for the same, in part or in whole, shall be received as pay-patients, on such terms as may be agreed on by the Visiting Committee, who are to take sufficient security for their performance. 7. The applicants must attend at the Hospital on the days of meeting of the Visiting Committee, in order to be examined by the attending Physician or Surgeon. BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 65 Form of Recommendation. New York, day of one thousand eight hundred I recommed to be admitted into the New York Hospital, if shall appear to you a proper object, after having been examined by the Physicians or Sur- geons. To the Visiting Committee of the New York Hospital. Form of Security for Pay-Patients. being admitted a patient in the New York Hospital, at my request, I, A. B., residing at No. in street, do hereby promise to provide with sufficient clothing while there ; to pay to the Superinten- dent of the said Hospital per week for board during continuance there ; to cause to be removed when discharged ; and to pay the expense of burial, if die there. Witness my hand the day of 18 8. Nothing in this chapter shall apply to the admis- sion of insane patients. CHAPTER XXIV. OF THE LIBRARY. 1. Before the Librarian enter on the execution of his office, he shall give sufficient security, to be approved of by the Visiting Committee, in a sum not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, that he will indemnify this corporation for any loss or damage which may be sustained by his negligence or misconduct as Librarian. 2. The Librarian shall keep every work in the library plainly numbered on a label on the back, and also on the inside of every volume ; and he shall cause 66 BY-LAAVS AND REGULATIONS. to be written or printed on the title-page of each volume, "The Property of the New York Hospital." 3. He shall keep an accurate catalogue of the books in the library, containing the title, author, size, number, and number of volumes of each work. He shall keep a book containing printed receipts ; and every person who shall borrow a book from the library, shall sign a receipt for the same. 4. The Librarian shall annually account for the library to the Library Committee, and shall at the same time report to the Committee an account of all books then out of the Library, to whom and^when they were lent. 5. Books shall be taken from the library on such days and at such hours only as the Library Committee shall direct. 6. Books may be loaned from the library only to the Governors ; to the Physicians and Surgeons ; to the Curator ; to the House-Physician, House-Surgeon, Apothecary, and other officers of the Hospital ; to those physicians and surgeons who may have formerly been physicians or surgeons to the establishment ; to those who may have served in the Hospital in the capacity of house-physician or house-surgeon for six months, to the satisfaction of the Governors, on the conditions and under the regulations directed in the ninth section ; to persons to whom the privilege has been especially granted by the Governors ; and to those who shall ac- quire ii in the manner prescribed in the next succeed- ing section. Every other person admitted to the use of BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 67 the library, not being a student of medicine, shall pay to the Treasurer five dollars, for which he shall receive a ticket expressing that he is entitled to the use of the library for one year. 7. Every person who shall make a donation to the library of books on medicine, surgery, or such subjects as are connected with medicine and surgery, (to be ap- proved of by the Library Committee,) to the amount of twenty-five dollars, or who shall pay to the Treas- urer the same amount in money, shall be entitled to the use of the library, under the regulations provided as to students. 8. Of voluminous collections of distinct books or papers, no person shall be allowed to have out more than one volume at one time ; nor shall any person, except a Governor, Physician, or Surgeon of the Hos- pital, take out more than a single volume of any kind at one time. 9. No student shall take out any book, without previously depositing with the Librarian such sum of money as the Library Committee shall direct ; or he may leave in lieu thereof, with the Librarian, an en- gagement signed by some respectable, permanent resi- dent in the city, in the following form : 11 A. B. being permitted to use the library belonging to the Society of the New York Hospital, I do hereby promise to pay to the Treasurer of the said Society all such fines and forfeitures as the said A. B. may become liable to, by virtue of the by-laws and ordinances of the said Society relating to the library. "Dated the day of 18 ," 68 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 10. A folio may be kept out four weeks ; a quarto three weeks ; an octavo or duodecimo, two weeks ; and if any volume be detained longer, the person who took it out shall pay a weekly fine of twenty-five cents for every week beyond the time above specified, until it be returned. 11. If a book shall not be returned within three months, it shall be considered as lost, and the person who took it out shall forfeit his deposit if he has made any; and if not, then a sum equal to what the deposit would have amounted to, if any had been made. 12. If any person shall lose one or more volumes of any set of books, he may give to the library a new set equally good with the former ; and shall thereupon receive the remainder of the broken set; but unless he immediately do this, he shall incur the forfeiture men- tioned in the last foregoing section, and the imperfect set shall be retained. 13. The books marked thus * in the catalogue, shall be read in the library only, unless by the written per- mission of two members of the Library Committee, addressed to the Librarian. The register of cases, or any other manuscript books, are not to be taken out of the library without the special permission of the Governors. 14. When any book is damaged, the Librarian shall report the fact to the Library Committee, who shall determine the fine to be paid by the borrower. 15. Every person who shall refuse or neglect to con- form to the regulations contained in this chapter, may BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 69 be refused the further use of the library, by the Lib- rary or Visiting Committee. 16. When any misunderstanding takes place on the subjects provided for in this chapter, it shall be decided by the Library or Visiting Committee. 17. All fines and forfeitures imposed in this chapter are appropriated to the use of the library. The Libra- rian shall collect and pay them over to the Library Committee, to whom he shall also render an account every month of such as have been incurred. CHAPTER XXV. OF THE HOSPITAL CABINET. 1. The Hospital Cabinet, consisting of preparations in healthy and morbid anatomy, of casts, models, de- lineations, paintings, and prints illustrative of anato- my and other branches of medical science, shall be under the general care and superintendence of the Cabinet Committee, and under the immediate charge of the Curator, who shall be appointed by the Govern- ors on the recommendation of the Physicians and Sur- geons. 2. It shall be the duty of the Curator to attend all surgical operations in the Hospital, and to superintend and direct all the post-mortem examinations, in which he shall be aided by the Medical or Surgical Walker to whose division the case to be examined belonged ; and he shall collect, prepare, and deposit in the Cabinet all such specimens occurring in or presented to the 70 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. Hospital as are thought worthy of preservation ; each with its appropriate label, and reference to the cata- logue. 3. He shall keep an analytical catalogue of all the preparations and other articles in the Cabinet, and shall therein briefly note the most important facts, so far as ascertained, in relation to each specimen, with further reference, when necessary, to the case-book of the Hospital. 4. He shall see that every article belonging to the Cabinet is kept in proper order, and that no part of the collection be at any time removed therefrom ; and shall open the Cabinet for the inspection of visitors, at such times as may be determined by the Cabinet Com- mittee. 5. All pathological specimens occurring in the Hos- pital shall be at the disposal of the Cabinet Committee; and no specimen worthy of a place in the Cabinet shall, on any account, be removed from the Hospital. 6. All preparations, and other articles received for deposit in the Cabinet, shall be considered the property of the Hospital; but such of them as are presented, may be marked by the name of the donor, or that of the individual by whom they were prepared or col- lected. 7. The Cabinet shall at all times be accessible to the Governors, to the Physicians and Surgeons, and to the Superintendent of the Hospital ; and shall be open to BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 71 other visitors at such times only as the Cabinet Com- mittee shall direct. CHAPTER XXVI. OF THE CLINICAL REGISTRAR. 1. The case books, Medical and Surgical, shall be under the general supervision of the Clinical Registrar, who shall be appointed by the Governors on the re- commendation of the Physicians and Surgeons. 2. It shall be the duty of the Clinical Registrar, under the joint instruction of the Physicians and Sur- geons, to prepare from time to time thorough digests of all the facts collected in the case books ; to super- vise the registry of cases, medical and surgical ; to re- port any inattention on the part of those whose duty it is to register cases, and at least onoe a year to report to the Board of Governors the transactions of his office. Note.—The words " Physician" and " Surgeons," wherever used in these By-Laws, shall be understood as applying only to the Attending Physician and Attending Surgeons of the Hospital. CHAPTER XXVII. BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE. 1. The Bloomingdale Asylum Committee shall con- sist of six Governors of the New York Hospital, not more than four of whom shall be re-eligible at the election at the stated meeting of the Board in June. 2. The Asylum Committee shall have charge of the 72 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. Bloomingdale estate, and of all its buildings and appur- tenances, subject always, however, to the orders, rules, and regulations of the Board of Governors, every member of which may at all times visit and inspect the establishment, and examine all the books, documents, and proceedings of the Committee. 3. The Asylum Committee are authorized to make such rules and regulations as they may judge proper for their own government and for the better govern- ment of the establishment, its officers, servants, and patients. Provided such rules and regulations be not inconsistent with the charter of this corporation, or with the rules and regulations hereby established, or which may, at any time hereafter, be established by the Board of Governors. And the said Board may, at any of its stated meetings, alter or repeal any rule or regulation made by the Asylum Committee, provided one month's notice of such alteration or repeal shall have been given by the member intending to submit the same. 4. The Asylum Committee shall meet at least once a month at the Asylum, on a stated day, to be fixed by their own regulations ; and two of the members, to be called the " Weekly Committee," shall attend at the Asylum at least once a week. The Asylum Committee shall make such arrangements among themselves, as that one new member shall be put on the Weekly Committee the first week in every month. 5. The Weekly Committee, at each visitation, shall make a thorough examination of each house and see every patient, so far as may be expedient ; and shall BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 73 make a report of their having done so ; which report shall be noted in the book of minutes of the Asylum Committee. 6. Any member of the Asylum Committee shall receive or reject applications for admission into the Asylum as in his discretion he shall think advisable. He shall make agreements for the terms on which pa- tients shall be received, and arrange for a money de- posit or security for the performance thereof, in the form and manner prescribed by the Asylum Com- mittee. 7. Patients shall be discharged, only, under the order of the Weekly Committee or Asylum Committee ; who shall adopt such regulations as shall prevent the discharge of any patient without the due notice to friends or provision made for a safe return to them, or a conveyance to the Alms House, in all cases where such precaution may be deemed necessary. 8. The Asylum Committee shall, at each monthly meeting, examine the accounts of the Institution. They shall keep a book of minutes of their proceedings, and shall cause proper books of accounts to be kept of all the receipts and expenditures. They shall also cause to be kept at the Asylum, books in which shall be noted the names of the patients admitted and dis- charged, and the attendance of the members at the weekly and monthly meetings. 9. The Asylum Committee shall not, in any one month, expend more than one hundred dollars in re- pairs or for improvements, Without a special order of the Board of Governors. 74 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 10. The Asylum Committee shall appoint one of its members to be their Secretary, who shall keep the minutes of the meetings of the Committee. He shall also provide all the necessary books for the establish- ment, and see that they are kept agreeably to these regulations. 11. It shall be the duty of the Asylum Committee to provide, at an expense not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, a clergyman of respectable standing, to perform religious services in the Asylum . once every Sabbath ; at which all persons residing on the premises may attend, excepting only such patients as, in the opinion of the Physician, would not be bene- fited thereby. 12. The Asylum Committee shall appropriate for the use of the patients suitable apartments in the build- ing for a reading-room and library ; and shall procure such books, periodical publications, and newspapers, as may be considered serviceable for them ; but the yearly disbursements for these objects shall not exceed seventy-five dollars. OF THE PHYSICIAN. L There shall be appointed annually by the Board of Governors, at the regular meeting in the month of June, a physician, who shall be a married man, to be called the Physician of the Asylum, and also an As- sistant Physician. 2. The Physician shall reside in the house provided for the Physician, and devote the whole of his time BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 75 without any other employment, to the duties of his ap- pointment ; nor shall he unnecessarily absent himself from the premises, and in no case be absent at night, without the consent of the Committee. 3. He shall be the superior officer of the Institution, and shall have charge of all articles belonging to the medical department ; he shall make a suitable classi- fication of the patients, and be accountable for both their medical and moral treatment; the latter, how- ever, subject to the supervision of the Asylum Com- mittee. 4. He shall endeavor to procure a history of the malady of every patient, including its origin, progress, and treatment to the time of admission. This state- ment, with any circumstances or peculiarities tending to elucidate the case, he shall record in a register to be kept in the Asylum for that purpose. The treat- ment pursued after admission in each case, with the result, shall afterwards be added. It shall further be his duty to record at length in another register all re- markable cases, and to deposit the same in the Asylum library. 5. He shall, at each monthly meeting of the Asylum Committee, report in writing the number of patients admitted and discharged during the preceding month, and also a general statement of their cases. And, at the expiration of each year, he shall furnish a summary statement of all patients received, discharged, recov- ered, or who have died since the last annual report, with the causes of death, and also the number then re- maining. 76 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 6. He shall direct what medicines are to be provided for the* use of the establishment, and present a list of those wanted to the Asylum Committee, which list shall be entered in a book kept for the purpose. 7. He shall also have the authority, under the di- rection of the Asylum Committee, and under such re- gulations as they shall prescribe, to hire or discharge all the attendants on the patients ; that is, all persons directly employed in the management of them. 8. The Assistant Physician shall reside in the Asy- lum, and devote the whole of his time to the duties of his appointment, which shall be to act under the orders of the Physician, and in his absence to perform his du- ties. He shall also act as the Apothecary of the Insti- tution when required. OF THE WARDEN. 1. The Warden shall be appointed annually by the Board of Governors at the monthly meeting in June, but may be removed at any time ; he shall act as steward of the house, and, under the direction and supervision of the Asylum Committee, shall have charge and custody of the buildings and furniture, as also of the farm, farm-houses, garden, green-house, and other property on the premises. He shall not un- necessarily absent himself from the premises, and iu no case be absent at night, without the consent of the Committee. 2. He shall purchase, under the direction of the Weekly Committee, fuel, provisions, and all other BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 77 stores (except medicine) for the use of the Asylum, for which purpose he shall receive, from time to time, such sums as the Asylum Committee may think neces- sary. 3. He shall have authority, under the direction and control of the Asylum Committee, to hire and dis- charge an assistant steward, and all other servants em- ployed in and about the Asylum, or on the premises, except the attendants on the patients ; but he shall not give higher wages than may be established by the Asylum Committee for their respective employments, without the consent of the Weekly Committee. 4. He shall report at each meeting of the Weekly Committee the name of each patient received, dis- charged, escaped, or deceased. And he shall keep a book in such form as the Secretary of the Asylum Com- mittee shall direct, in which he shall make the like entries respecting the patients ; also of the pay agreed for, and the names and residences of the sureties for t payment. 5. He shall also keep accounts of all his expendi- tures and receipts, and shall furnish to the Asylum Committee at their monthly meeting for June, Sep- tember, December, and March, an abstract showing all balances then due the Asylum ; he shall likewise furnish from time to time a separate statement of the expenditures on the farm and garden, and of the pro- duce thereof. 6. He shall use his best endeavors to carry into effect the general system of moral treatment, as laid 78 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. down by the Physician, and attend, in all things, to the directions of the Asylum Committee. He shall also visit, at least once in each day, all rooms occupied by male patients, and particularly attend to the clean- liness of those patients, their galleries, apartments, beds, and other things about the establishment. OF THE MATRON. 1. The Matron shall be appointed, and may be re- moved, in like manner with the Warden. She shall be bound by all rules and regulations regarding the Warden which may be applicable to her department. 2. She will devote her whole time to the affairs of the Institution ; the first object of her care will be the moral treatment and comfort of the female patients, and she is not to be absent from the house during the absence of the Warden. 3. She shall be especially responsible for the clean- liness of the female side of the house, for the manage- ment of the kitchen, and for the care of the household ' goods, furniture, and linen. 4. She is to inspect all the female departments, and see each female patient at least once every day, and as much oftener as occasion may require. OF THE PATIENTS. 1. No other than pay patients shall be received into the Asylum except by the express direction of the Board of Governors. Paupers from any part of the State may be admitted at the lowest rate for which BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 79 they can be supported, on the order of the Overseers of the Poor whence they are sent, which order shall be held as security for the maintenance of such pauper. All other classes shall be received on such terms as may be agreed on, but for a period not less than thir- teen weeks ; and the payment for this period shall be made in advance, and no part thereof shall be refunded should the patient be removed within the said time, unless by the express direction of the Asylum Com- mittee. The Weekly Committee may, in special cases, accept a bond with competent sureties, in lieu of the advance required. 2. All patients shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the Asylum Committee may establish re- specting them. OF VISITORS. Visitors shall not be admitted into the Blooming- dale Asylum, or on the grounds, without a written permit from one of the Governors, or consent of the Physician or Warden, nor be permitted to see any pa- tient without the consent of the Physician. CHAPTER XXVIII. OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS. 1. All ordinances shall be copied in a book provi- ded for that purpose, and each ordinance so copied shall have the seal of the corporation affixed thereto, and signed by the Secretary. 80 BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 2. All resolutions making alterations in any of the existing by-laws, or any new by-law that may be passed, shall be put in the form of an ordinance, and all such ordinances shall be copied in a book of ordi- nances. 3. No alteration or amendment shall be made to the the by-laws, unless a month's previous notice of such intention be given at a meeting of the Board. GOVERNORS AND OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL, A. D. 1872-3. GOVERNORS, JOHN C. GREEN, President. ROBERT LENOX KENNEDY, Vice-President WILLIAM DENNISTOUN, Treasurer. mTT^w.o „ T DAVID COLDEN MURRAY, Secretary. THOMAS HALL FAILE, GEORGE CABOT WARD FREDERICK A. CONKLING, WILLIAM B HOFFMAN nTrlH£Ni^£ BAILEY> EDWARD £JAFFRAY?' una u. b\VAN, JONATHAN THORNE JAMES W. BEEKMAN, GEORGE T4LBOT OLYPHANT ^^^rB^,RrV^^J°HNST0N' JOHN EARLE mLLlXMS ' ?^JJ?JFL WtLLETS. WILLIAM H. MACY, JAMES M. BROWN, JAMES H. BANKER ISI^ARD GANDY' MERRITT TRIMBLE.' ROBERT J. LIVINGSTON, Two Vacancies. JACKSON S. SCHULTZ, PHYSICIANS. Attending- Physicians. THOMAS F. COCK, M. D., CHARLES E. HACKLEY M D WILLIAM H. DRAPER, M. D., JAMES W. McLANE M D GOUVERNEUR M. SMITH, M. D., WOOLSEY JOHNSON, M. D SURGEONS. Consulting' Surgeons. ALFRED C. POST, M. D., WILLIAM H, VAN BUREN M D WILLARD PARKER, M. D. Attending Surgeons. GURDON BUCK, M. D., HENRY B. SANDS, M. D., THOMAS M. MARKOE, M. D., CHARLES M. ALLIN, M. D. GEORGE A. PETERS, M. D., ERNST KRACKOWIZER, M. D. Physician to the Bloomingdale Asylum- D. TILDEN BROWN, M. D. Assistant Physician. DWIGHT R. BURRELL, M. D. Curator. CHRISTOPHER M. BELL, M. D. Clinical Registrar. DAVID MAGIE, M. D. Librarian. JOHN L. VANDERVOORT, M. D. JAC03 MATHEWS, Clerk, GOVERNORS THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL. The following is a list of the names of Governors, from the commencement of the Institution to the Thirty-first of Decem- ber, 1872, with the date of their respective elections, and the length of time they continued in office. Governors. Elected Charles Ward Apthorp....... William Axtell.............. John Alsop................. Gilbert Aspinwall............ Gilbert Aspinwall............ Gilbert Aspinwall............ John Atkinson............... John Aspinwall............. John Adams................ Stephen Allen............... Stephen Allen............... Augustin Averill............ John Jacob Astor........... Gerardus William Beekman... George Bowne............... George Bowne.............. William Bayard............. William Bayard............. Robert Bowne............... Aaron Burr.................. James Beekman ............ Theophylact Bache....... Thomas Buchanan.......... Francis Bassett.............. William Backhouse.......... Nicholas Bayard............. John Barrow............... Samuel Bowne............... Walter Bowne............... Dr. Samuel Bard............ Rev. Abraham Beach........ Thomas Buckley............. John Bogert. ............... John L. Bowne.............. Abraham Barker............ Robert II. Bowne ........... William Bayard, Jr.......... John L. Buckley......... 1770 1770 1784 1799 1811 1815 1800 1814 1818 1823 1835 1848 1860 Resigned. 1784 1784 1788 1809 1812 1809 1817 1854 1830 1857 1864 Served the Institution. years years years 15 years years years years years years years 1770 1777 1770 1784 ) 1785 1797 i 1777 1784 ) 1800 1802 1784 1784 1792 1785 1787 1785 1797 1785 1800 1785 1787 1787 1792 1794 1798 1795 1807 1796 1797 1800 1805 1801 1802 1801 1806 1802 1842 1804 1817 1810 1815 1813 1816 1815 1827 1818 1823 1842 1855 7 j'ears 26 years 9 j^ears 34 years 8 j'ears 2 years 12 j'ears 15 j'ears 2 j'ears 5 j'ears 4 j'ears 12 j'ears 1 j'ear 5 j'ears 1 j'ear 5 j'ears 40 years 13 years 5 j'ears 3 j'ears 12 years 5 years 13 years Died in Office, 1819. Died in office, 1852. Died in office, 1818. 84 LIST OP GOVERNORS. B. Governors. James W. Beekman..... James W. Beekman......... Nathaniel P. Bailey...... James M. Brown.......... Theodore B. Bronson....... James H. Banker ......... David Clarkson... ........ Matthew Clarkson.......... John Campbell............ John B. Coles.............. Isaac Collins.............. John T. Champlin.......... John G. Coster............. Samuel Corp.............. Richard Cunningham....... Cadwallader D. Colden..... Nathan Comstock......... Duncan P. Campbell....... John Clark, Jr............ Isaac Carow............... Robert C. Cornell.......... Stacy B. Collins........... Henrj' Chauncej'........... James N. Cobb............ David Clarkson............ Frederick A. Conkling .. Henry Chauncej', Jr....... Israel Corse............... Oliver Delancey........... Elias Desbrosses........... James Duane ............. William Denning.......... William Denning.......... Jacob de la Montagnie...... Frederick De Peyster....... Cornelius Dubois........... James F Depej'ster........ James Donaldson.......... James Donaldson......... William Dennistoun....... Andrew Elliott............ Lawrence Embree.......... William Edgar............ Thomas Eddy............. William Edgar, Jr......... Walter Franklin........... Dr. John Fothergil (London) George Folliott...,........ Samuel Franklin........... Elected 1850 1858 1858 1861 1864 1869 1770 1792 1794 1796 1800 1801 1801 1801 1812 1812 1818 1818 1819 1826 1832 1846 1848 1855 1856 1857 1859 1864 Resigned. 1770 1784 1787 1793 1819 1770 1770 1770 1781 1854 1868 1777 1822 1797 1798 1808 1811 1803 1802 1814 1827 1823 1827 1834 1864 ]852 1861 1865 1865 1869 Served the Institution. 1770 1784 1775 1784 1789 1784 1792 1805 1811 1797 1802 1809 1818 1814 1818 1827 1869 1843 1856 1858 1862 1865 1784 1796 1798 1823 1773 1784 1794 } } 18 j'ears 14 j'ears 11 j'ears 4 j'ears 3 years 7 j'ears 30 j'ears 3 j'ears 2 j'ears 8 years 10 j'ears 2 j'ears 1 year 2 j'ears 15 years 5 j'ears 9 j'ears 15 j'ears 24 j'ears 13 j'ears 18 years 4 j'ears 6 j'ears 9 j'ears 15 j'ears 6 years 5 j'ears 14 years 3 years 5 j'ears 14 j'ears 5 years 9 years 4 j'ears 42 years 17 years 7 years 14 j'ears 12 years 11 j'ears 34 years 4 years 11 years 3 j'ears 14 years 13 years Continues in office. Continues in office. Continues in office. Continues in office. Died in office, 1850. Died in office, 1845. Continues in office. Died in office 1778. Continues in office. Died in office, 1827. Died in office, 1781. LIST OF GOVERNORS. 85 Governors. Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. 1789 1794 1796 1803 1806 1807 1817 1837 1855 1792 1797 1798 1829 1808 1815 1818 1856 3 j'ears 3 j'ears V 28 years 2 j'ears 8 j'ears 1 j'ear 19 years 17 years Moses Field.................. Thos. HallFaile............. Continues in office. Hugh Gaine.......... John I. Glover....... Archibald Gracie___ Jonathan Goodhue... John C. Green....... Sheppard Gandy..... Geo. D. H. Gillespie. Whitehead Hicks___ Henrj' Havdock..... Joseph Hallett....... Abijah Hammond--- Henry Haydock, Jr.. Valentine Hicks..... Philip Hone ........ James Heard........ John Hone.......... Jacob Harvey....... William M. Halsted.. George F. Hussej'--- Abram S. Hewitt... William J. Hoppin.. William B. Hoffman. 1790 1796 1802 1823 1856 1864 1866 1770 1777 1785 1794 1797 1809 1823 1829 1831 1838 1841 1849 18J7 1866 1866 G. 1806 1802 1803 1872 H. 1794 1787 1795 1802 1812 1840 1843 1856 1859 1859 1867 16 j'ears 6 j'ears 1 year 25 years 16 years 8 j'ears 6 years 11 j'ears 17 j'ears 2 years 1 year 5 years 3 j'ears 17 years 14 years 1 j'ear 10 j'ears, 15 years 10 j'ears 2 j'ears 1 j'ear 6 years Died in office, 1848. Continues in office. Continues in office. Died in office, 1781. Died in office, 1832. Died in office, 1848. Continues in office. James Jauncey....... Samuel Jones.......... Samuel Jones.......... John Jay............. William Jauncey...... John Jones........... William Johnson...... Peter A. Jay ......... Edward R. Jones...... James I. Jones........ Geo. F. Jones.......... Jas. Boorman Johnston. EdwardS. J affray..... Lawrence Kortright.. Archibald Kennedy.. John Keese.......... William Kenyon..... Rev. John C. Kunzie. 1777 1784 7 j'ears 1784 1792 1790 1794 y 8 j'ears 1787 1789 2 years 1797 1802 5 vears 1799 1802 3 vears 1804 1824 20 j'ears 1809 1833 24 years 1834 1837 3 vears 1840 1858 18 vears 1854 1867 13 years 1859 13 vears Continues in office 1867 K. 5 j'ears Continues in office. 1770 1786 16 vears 1770 1779 9 vears 1787 1794 7 j'ears 1795 1797 2 years 1797 1806 9 j'ears 86 LIST OF GOVERNORS. Governors. Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. 1797 1827 1806 1845 1853 1798 1830 1809 >- 4 years 3 j'ears 8 years 19 years Died in office, 1853. Continues in office. Robert R. Livingston....... Abraham Lott............... Abraham Lott.............., Leonard Lispenard........... Leonard Lispenard........... Philip Livingston..........., Peter Van Brugh Livingston. Peter Van Brugh Livingston.. John Livingston............. William Laight............., R. R. Livingston, Jr........, John Lawrence............. Jonathan Little............. Jonathan Little............ Richard R. Lawrence......., Dr. John C. Lettsom (London) Herman Le Roy............., Jacob Le Roj'................ John B. Lawrence........... James Lovett............... Edward W. Laight.......... Richard M. Lawrence..... Robert J. Livingston......... Roger Morris......... Roger Morris......... Abraham Mortier..... William McAdam..... Nathaniel Marston.... John Murray......... John Murray......... David Matthews...... Charles McEvers...... Robert Murray....... Lindlej' Muiraj'...... Richard Morris....... William Maxwell..... Alexander McDougall. John Murray, Jr...... Alexander McComb... William Minturn..... John McVickar....... Benjamin G. Minturn. Robert Mott.......... Samuel Mansfield___ Andrew Morris....... John R. Murraj'...... Samuel Mott..... Peter Mesier......... Robert I. Murray..... John McComb, Jr..... Samuel F. Mott....... 1770 1770 1784 1770 1784 1770 1770 1784 1777 1787 1787 1787 1798 1806 1798 1800 1803 1804 1808 1824 1830 1837 1865 1770 1777 1770 1770 1770 1773 1781 1776 1777 1784 1784 1784 1784 1784 1787 1788 1796 1798 1799 1800 1803 1804 1806 1810 1810 1816 1818 1837 1777 1787 1777 1787 1777 1777 1785 1786 1803 1794 1794 1803 1799 1804 1804 1805 1847 1831 1853 M. 1773 1784 1772 1775 1784 1784 1787 1785 1793 1792 1787 1792 1802 1802 1802 1802 1809 1823 1837 1814 1819 1837 1846 6 j'ears 10 years 10 j'ears 7 years 8 j'ears 9 j'ears 16 j'ears 7 j'ears 7 j'ears > 25 years 1 j'ear 4 j'ears 1 year 1 year 37 j'ears 23 years I year 16 j'ears 7 j'ears - 10 j'ears 1 year 10 j'ears 2 j'ears - 30 j'ears 8 j'ears 7 j'ears 3 vears 1 j'ear 9 j'ears 8 j'ears 3 vears 32 j'ears 4 j'ears 6 j'ears 4 j'ears 3 years 2 years 6 j'ears 19 j'ears 31 j'ears 4 j'ears 9 j'ears 42 years 19 j'ears 9 years Died in office, 1776. Died in office, 1826. Died in office, 1845. Continues in office. Died in office, 1771. Died in office, 1780. Died in office, 1809. Died in office, 1819. Died in office, 1858. LIST OF GOVERNORS. 87 M. Governors . Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. E. D. Morgan............... 1850 1853 1869 1859 9 years 19 years 3 j'ears Continues in office. Continues in office. George Newbold. . George Newbold.. Russel H. Nevins. 1808 1811 1852 N. > 1} 48 years | 1 j'ear 1857 Died in office, 1853. Samuel Osgood....... D. W. C. Olyphant ... Geo. Talbot Olyphant. Geo. Talbot Olyphant. Thomas Pcarsall..... Thomas Pearsall..... Daniel Phoenix...... Edmund Prior....... Jotham Post........ Jotham Post........ Elijah Pell.......... William Post........ John B. Provost ___ Henry Post, Jr .. Benjamin D. Perkins. Benjamin D. Perkins. Henry L. Pierson___ 1792 1848 1855 1869 1772 1784 1784 1795 1795 1801 1798 1800 1802 1803 1808 1810 1858 1795 1 1850 1864 [} 12 years P. 1777 1795 1787 1803 1796 1802 1799 1805 1810 1809 1863 3 years 2 years y 16 j'ears } 3 j'ears 8 years 2 j'ears 1 j'ear 5 j'ears 3 j'ears 7 years 1£ years 5 vears Continues in office. Died in office, 1805. Died in office, 1810. Isaac Roosevelt....... Isaac Roosevelt....... Walter Rutherford.... Alexander Robertson. Cornelius Rajr....... Moses Rogers......... Henry Rutgers.... William Robinson... Herman G. Rutgers.. John P. Ritter...... Benjamin W. Rogers Nathaniel Richards.. 1771 1784 1784 1790 1792 1792 1794 1797 1801 1806 1818 1827 1777 1794 1788 1793 1797 1799 1798 1802 1803 1813 1855 1851 13 years 4 j'ears 3 years 5 j'ears 7 j'ears 4 j'ears 5 years 2 years 7 years 37 years 24 years William Smith...... William Smith...... William Shotwell — Peter Schemerhom... Paschal N Smith... James Scott......... Jacob Sherred..... Ebenezer Stevens--- Allen Shepherd...... Rev. F. C. Schaeffer. Thomas R. Smith--- Benjamin L. Swan... 1770 177!) 1794 1795 1799 1802 1809 1809 1809 1819 ]822 1827 1777 1781 1795 1802 1802 1814 1819 1810 1827 1857 12 j'ears 1 year 7 jears 3 years 12 j'ears 10 j'ears 14 vears 1 year 8 j'ears 25 j'ears 30 j'ears Died in office, 1823. Died in office, 1847. LIST OF GOVERNORS. S. Governors. John A. Stevens..... Peter G. Stuyvesant, Frederick Sheldon.... Caleb Swan......... Thos. B. Stillman ... Otis D. Swan....... Jackson S. Schultz... John Thurston......, NajahTaj'lor........ Thomas U. Taj'lor... George Taj'lor.»...., George T. Trimble... Jonathan Thome___ Merritt Trimble .... William Ustick.... William Ustick, Jr. 1828 1833 1837 1851 1855 1858 1865 1797 1810 1817 1827 1846 1*68 1872 1777 1799 1869 1838 1855 1854 T. 1804 1860 1829 1827 U. 1784 1802 Served the Institution. 41 years 5 j'ears 18 years 3 years 11 years 14 j'ears 7 years 7 j'ears 50 j'ears 12 years £ J'ear 26 j'ears 4 years i year 7 j'ears 3 vears Died in office, 1866. Continues in office. Continues in office. Died in office, 1872. Continues in office. Continues in office. Augustus Van Cortlandt. Augustus Van Horn..... Augustus Van Horn..... Richard Varick......... Richard Varick......... Gulian Verplanck....... Wj'nant Van Zandt, Jr., Gulian C. Verplanck Hubert Van Wagenen... John Watts.......... Hugh Wallace........ Henry White......... Henrj' White......... Jacob Walton........ Gerard Walton....... Robert Watts........ James Watson....... James Watson....... Gilbert C. Willett..... William W. Woolsej'.. William W. Woolsey . Joshua Waddington.. Henry I. Wj'ckoff___ Henry I. Wyckoff___ Dr. Hugh Williamson. Ezra Weeks.......... Charles Wilkes....... John David Wolfe..... Joseph Walker....... Samuel Willets...... George Cabot Ward... John Earle Williams.. 1777 1780 1793 1794 1802 1798 1806 1823 1835 1770 1770 1770 1777 1773 1789 1791 1792 1801 1794 1799 1829 1801 1802 1830 1814 1823 1827 1854 1855 1860 1865 1869 1786 1785 1794 1795 1804 1799 1808 1865 1837 W. 1784 1784 1773 1784 1777 1799 1792 1799 1802 1797 1802 1834 1802 1809 1834 1828 9 j'ears • 6 years 3 j'ears 1 year 2 j'ears 42 j'ears 2 j'ears 14 j'ears • 14 j'ears y 10 j'ears 4 j'ears 10 years 1 j'ear y 8 years 3 j'ears y 8 j'eSrs 1 j'ear 16 years 5 jj$ars 11 j'ears 1 j'ear 18 j'ears 11 years 12 years 7 j'ears 3 j'ears Died in office, 1839. Died in office, 1819. Died in office, 1872. Died in office, 1866. Continues in office. Continues in office. Continues in office. OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS. 89 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL. presidents. John Watts................ John Alsop................ Richard Morris............ Isaac Roosevelt___......... Theophylact Bache ........ Gerard Walton ........... Matthew Clarkson.......... Thomas Eddj'.............. Peter Augustus Jay........ George Newbold ..'......... George T. Trimble......... John C. Green............. vice-presidents. Andrew Elliott............. Abraham Lott.............. Richard Morris.............. Isaac Roosevelt............. Theophylact Bache......... Gerard Walton............. Matthew Clarkson.......... Hugh Gaine............... Robert Bowne.............. Thomas Eddj'.............. Peter Augustus Jaj'......... Thomas Bucklej'........... Najah Taj'lor.............. Isaac Carow.............. Geo. T. Trimble............ Gulian C. Verplanck........ John David Wolfe......... Robert Lenox Kennedj'..... TREASURERS. Peter Van Brugh Livingston Henry Haj'dock............ John Murraj'............... Thomas Eddy.............. John Adams................ John A. Stevens............ Robert Lenox Kennedj'..... William Dennis toun........ ASSISTANT TREASURERS. Benjamin W. Rogers . . Robert H. Bowne........... Elected. 1770 1784 1788 1790 1794 1797 1799 1822 1827 1833 1858 1872 1770 1784 1787 1788 1790 1794 1797 1799 1805 1818 1822 1827 1833 1837 1850 1858 1865 1872 1770 1777 1792 1808 1818 1854 1862 1872 1818 1822 1784 1788 1790 1794 1797 1799 1822 1827 1833 1857 1784 1787 1788 1790 1794 1797 1799 1805 1818 1822 1827 1833 1837 1849 1858 1865 1777 1792 1808 1818 1854 1862 1872 1822 1827 Served the Institution. 14 j'ears 4 j'ears 2 j'ears 4 j'ears 3 years 2 j'ears 23 years 5 j'ears 6 j'ears 24 j'ears 14 j'ears 14 j'ears 3 years 1 j'ear 2 years 4 j'ears 3 years 2 j'ears 6 j'ears 13 j'ears 4 j'ears 5 years 6 j'ears 4 years 12 j'ears 8 j'ears 7 years 7 vears / j'ears 15 j'ears 16 years 10 vears 36 j'ears 8 j'ears 10 j'ears 4 years 5 years Died in office, 1872. Continues in office. Died in August, 1872. Continues in office. Continues in office. Office then abol- ished . 90 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS. SECRETARIES. Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. 1770 1784 1787 1794 1799 1800 1806 1807 1824 1858 1784 1787 1794 1799 1800 1806 1807 1824 14 j'ears 3 years 7 j'ears 5 years 1 j'ear 6 years 1 j'ear 17 j'ears 34 years 14 years Died in office, 1858. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 91 PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, The following are the names of the gentlemen who have served the Institution as Physicians and Surgeons, in the order of their appointment, together with the date of their resigna- tion or death, and their respective periods of service. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Elected. P. P. P. P. P. P. S. s. s. s. Cons'g S. S. 8. P. P. P. S. s. p. p. p. p. Cons'g P. P. Cons'g P. P. P. P. toL.A. P. P. S. Cons'g S. S. Cons'g S. P. Cons'g P. J\ P. to L.A, C.PtoB.A. P. to L.A. P. P. Cons'g P. S. Cons'g S. Samuel Bard..... Peter Middleton. . John Jones...... Malachi Treat..... John Charlton.... Thomas Jones___ Thomas Jones___ Richard Baj'lej'... James Tillary___ Wright Post...... Wright Post...... Richard S. Kissam Richard S. Kissam Samuel Nicholl___ William P. Smith. J. R B.Rodgers... Samuel Borrowe... Valentine Seaman. Elihu H. Smith... Samuel L. Mitchill David Hosack..... David Hosack .... David Hosack .... William Hamerslej William Hamersley Edward Miller. James S.Stringham .Archibald Bruce. John C. Osborne. Benjamin Dewitt. Valentine Mott.. Valentine Mott.. Alex. H. Stevens. Alex. H. Stevens. John Watts ..... John Watts..... John Neilson..... John Neilson. ... John Neilson--- William Handy.. Peter C. Tappan. Thomas Cock--- Thomas Cock.... John C. Cheesman John C. Cheesman 1774 1774 1774 1774 1791 1791 1792 1792 1792 1792 1821 1792 1797 1792 1792 1794 1795 1796 1796 1796 1797 1807 1826 1798 1821 1806 1807 1808 1809 1809 1817 1837 1817 1839 1817 1829 1817 1819 1829 1817 1817 1819 1834 1821 1856 Resigned. 1797 1791 1791 1794 1792 1792 1795 1805 1792 1821 1796 1796 1796 1807 1817 1817 1806 1826 1817 1817 1810 1837 1839 1829 1819 1829 1830 1819 1824 1834 1856 Served the Institution. 23 j'ears 17 years 17 years 20 years 1 j'ear > 4 years 13 j'ears 1 month y 36 jiears y 29 j'ears 4 years 4 years 13 j'ears 22 years 21 j'ears 2 j'ears 2l years ^- 25 j'ears y 31 j'ears 6 j'ears 10 j'ears 9 j'ears 8 j'ears 1 j'ear \- 48 j'ears 52 j'ears 12 j'ears ;-13 j'ears 2 j'ears 7 years 50 years 41 years Died in office, 1828. Died in office, 1822. Died in office, 1817. Died in office, 1798. Died in office, 1832. Died in office, 1833. Died in office, 1812. Died in office, 1817. Died in office, 1817. Died in office, 1865. Died in office, 1869. Died in office, 1831. Died in office, 1869. Died in office, 1862. THYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Elected. Resigned. Served the Institution. s. J. Kearnv Rodgers. 1822 29 years Died in office, 1851. p. Samuel W. Moore.. 1824 1828 4 years p. Stephen Brown.... 1826 1832 6 years p. Cons'g P. Fr. U. Johnston___ Fr. U. Johnston.... 1828 1848 1848 >- 30 j'ears Died in office, 1858. P.toB.A. James Macdonald .. 1829 1830 y 7 j'ears James Macdonald.. 1832 1837 P. Joseph M. Smith .. 1829 37 j'ears Died in office, 1866. P. 1832 1843 11 years P to B A. Guy C Bavley.... 1830 1832 2 j'ears P. Edw. Delafield 1834 1838 4 j'ears S. Alfred C. Post 1836 1853 y 36 j'ears Continues in office as Cons'g S. Alfred C. Post 1853 Cons'g Surgeon. S. Cons'g S. R. K. Hoffman.... R. K. Hoffman.... 1836 1851 1851 y 24 years Died in office, 1860. S. John G. Adams.... 1837 1837 S. 1837 35 j'ears Continues in office. P. toB.A. Benjamin Ogden... 1837 1839 2 j-ears P. James Macdonald.. 1838 1843 5 j'ears P.toB.A. William Wilson.... 1839 1844 5 j'ears S. 1839 • 1863 33 years P. John A. Swett..... 1842 12 j'ears Died in office, 1854. P. John H. Griscom... 1843 1866 23 j'ears P. toB.A. Pliny Earle...... 1844 1849 5 j'ears P. Henry D. Bulkley. 1848 24 j'ears Died in office, 1872. P. toB A. Chas. H. Nichols.. 1849 1852 3 j'ears S. c.s. ThaddeusMHabjted. ThaddeusMHalsted. 1851 1865 1865 >■ 19 j'ears Died in office, 1870. s. Thomas M. Markoe 1852 20 j'ears Continues in office. P.toB.A. D. Tilden Brown... 1852 20 years Continues in office. S. Wm. H.Van Buren 1853 1860 y 12 years Continues in office as c. s. Wm. H.Van Buren. 1867 Cons'g. Surgeon. p. John T Metcalfe .. 1854 1855 1 j'ear p. Thos. F. Cock 1855 17 years Continues in office. s. Willard Parker.... 1856 1867 y 16 years Continues in office c. s. 1867 as Cons'g. Surgeon. s. George A Peters.. 1860 12 j'ears Continues in office. p. Thomas B. Dash .. . 1862 1867 5 j'ears p. William H. Draper. 1862 10 years Continues in office. s. Henry B. Sands... 1863 9 j'ears Continues in office. s. Charles M. Allin.. 1865 7 j'ears Continues in office. p. GouverneurM.Smith 1866 6 years Continues in office. p. Charles E. Hackley. 1866 6 years Continues in office. p. James W. McLane. 1867 5 years Continues in office. s. Ernst Krackowizer. 1867 5 j'ears Continues in office. p. Woolsey Johnson... 1872 Continues in office. NOTE.—The ahove abreviations are : P. for Physician, S. for Surgeon, Cons'g. P . Consulting Physician, Cons'g. S. Consulting Surgeon, B. A. Bloomingdale Asylum, L. A. Lunatic Asylum. J PATIENTS RECEIVED AND DISCHARGED. 93 PATIENTS RECEIVED AND DISCHARGED, The New York Hospital was first opened for the reception of patients in January, 1791, at which time a number were admitted. Statement of patients admitted into and discharged from the New York Hos- pital, from February 1st, 1792, to December 31st, 1821, including the Insane Patients during that period. From Feb. 1, 1792 to Feb. 1,1793 1793 to Jan. 31, 1794 Jan. 31, 1794 1795 1795 1796 1796 1797 1797 1798 1798 1799 *1801 1802 1802 1803 1803 1804 During the \ .1804 1805 1806 1807 .1808 .1809 .1810 .1811 .1812 .1813 1814 .1815 .1816 .1817 .1818 .1819 .1820 1821 236 566 419 514 510 472 503 974 956 876 1,068 1,026 1,039 1,011 1,115 1,067 1,069 1.391 1,245 1,121 926 1,547 1,705 1,510 1,721 1,725 1,648 1,631 130 135 296 293 314 296 349 561 654 668 835 730 674 672 723 777 768 1,043 904 699 586 1,026 1,159 1,099 1,210 1,319 1,324 1,220 18 26 30 33 45 60 41 146 88 46 62 55 38 39 58 45 53 42 99 97 104 132 65 125 132 78 64 111 5 22 17 17 9 12 12 0 0 0 42 83 no 81 64 116 95 76 64 110 74 133 224 144 118 130 97 129 15 13 35 50 41 33 98 65 43 52 118 122 76 63 51 56 68 43 38 28 40 58 43 56 39 37 22 4 0 10 5 3 0 0 17 28 9 9 14 7 6 25 17 22 32 U 21 20 16 25 23 21 38 19 23 23 52 65 110 56 57 65 105 106 88 159 150 143 139 123 109 95 149 156 128 122 162 163 113 148 137 139 166 29,591 120,464 1,932 1,984 1,417 435 3,228 Remaining................................131 * No returns appear on the minutes from 1799 to 1801. nraoooooooooooaoaooocKOoooooooocooooooociOoooooQoococ'OooooooooDQOQooo 0»0<0'0'OiCnrf^>r>->f>-^i^->f»-"-*-*it-05020505000505W0503tOtOtOtOMtOtOtO Cn>*>-05tOl-iOtOOO-105 0>4^05tOi-iO«£'00-lO>Ci-03tOI-iO^OO-^1030'if^05tO P rl C 1 MM^OiMCMtO-jai-JMSfflO-JOO-J^ltOOO^OOMOOSimOOvlVKl^OJtO tO 1 OitD(JMHMt«3!M!Dlr!00050tOa»l050005lCO'0)-J3C»Offl-JObiMOO O 1 WO*.ajOjmm50050*COO\l-itOOTO^'r»>r^«0^!^4l-itOOS©©^li>'l-'l-i|-il-i|-i|-itObOI-il-i|-i Mh-i*-iMM r-l Ml-i hiMMHHMI-i OS 1 -J5£>©l-i0i©03>£»-03l-i—iO3WQ000h-i^O<>^Ni^3O5©«3l-i©-r'O3©^^03Wlr^MCT>#*©tOtOCOr^tOI-lrf»-O3rOOStO^4tO00 Relieved. »j | totDOotoo5©tort^to*-03h-ii—irf^05toi^«O(X>r-i05ClStOI-itOK.>r'01t01-i0503t01-itOI-itOttoO'C"OiO5©©0000H-iOi05tO00©'-*'lf>-03HH*. tO M M OS 05 OS tO tO 05 03 tO tO tO tO 1-1 M tr» OJ©©OOM^O©00©Oi^^OS0500lriOOi*iCNl£'-toOOtnr-it01--i©5CNeoCN«D s 13 < a; 3 .22 "3 M 374 282 294 269 346 474 575 421 506 529 475 411 405 199 30 a O u . a> to O V 0,-r^ S Disorderly and Eloped. - 1856............. 1857.............. 3,173 2,632 2,222 2,582 2,867 3,343 3,937 2,843 3,066 2,912 2,402 2,221 2,392 1,417 17 38,026 2,085 1,943 1,506 1,771 1,971 2,483 2,724 1,919 1,865 1,884 1,536 1,532 1,614 1,116 85 149 115 92 140 109 119 48 78 275 109 63 56 46 35 3 23 11 25 13 28 52 34 28 46 40 23 20 16 7 0 66 61 26 60 64 45 119 24 24 36 32 43 69 35 4 291 277 1858.......... 274 1859.............. 315 1860.............. 316 1861.............. 309 1862............. 1863.............. 400 373 1864.............. 399 1865.............. 326 1866.............. 283 1867.............. 171 1868.............. 235 1869............. 138 1870............. 10 26,034 5,590 1,437 366 708 4,117 RECAPITULATION Admitted............... from 1st Feb. " 1st Jan. " 1st Jan. Discharged as Cured................ from 1st Feb. >' 1st Jan. " 1st Jan. Relieved.............. from 1st Feb. " 1st Jan. " 1st Jan. By Request........... from 1st Feb. " 1st Jan. " 1st Jan. Improper objects........ from 1st Feb. " 1st Jan. " lsi Jan. Disorderly and eloped., from 1st Feb. <' IstJau. " 1st Jan. Died ............lrom 1st Feb. '• 1st Jan. '» 1st Jan. 1792 to 31st Dec. 1822 to 31st Dec. 1S56 to 19th Feb, 1792 to 31st Dec. 1822 to 31st Dec. 1856 to 19th Feb. 1792 to 31st Dec. 1822 to 31st Dec. 1856 to 19th Feb. 1792 to 31st Dec. 1822 to 31st Dec. 1856 to 19th Feb. 1792 to 34st Dec. 1822 to 3lst Dec. 1856 to 19th Feb. 1792 to 31st Dec. 1822 to 31st Dec. 1856 to 19th Feb. 1792 to 31st Dec. 1S22 to 31st Dec. 1856 to 19th Feb, 20,464 56,877 26,034 -------1- 103,375 1,932 4,836 5,590 1821 .......... 29,591 1855 .......... 76,5-'0 1870 .......... 38,026 1821 1855 1870 1821 1855. 1870 1821 1855 1870 1821 1855 1870 1821 1S55 1870 1821 1855 ,1870 1,984 4,271 1,437 435 1,034 366 1,417 1,742 708 3,228 7,665 4,117 12,358 7,692 1,835 3,867 15,010 144,137 -------- 144,137 96 PATIENTS RECEIVED AND DISCHARGED. In the first part of the preceding Table are included 1,553 Lunatics, who were ad- mitted into the Old Asylum, which was then a ward of the Hospital. Lunatics admitted previously to the year 1811......................... 643 Lunatics admitted in the year 1811.......................... ........ 108 » " » 1812 ____............................. 127 1812. ..... 12/ ...... 105 ...... 104 1815. ...... 69 1816. ...... 49 1817. ..... 49 1818 ... ...... 75 1819. ..... 77 1820. previously to 27th ...... 87 1821, 60 Of whom were cured........................................... 704 Relieved . ................................................. 239 Discharged by request---.................................... .. 278 Were improper objects........................................... 61 Disorderlj' or eloped............................................. 65 Died ..."...................................................... 154 1,553 And transferred to Bloomingdale Asj'lum. 1,501 52 BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM. Opened for the reception of Lunatics on the '21th July, 1821. Lunatics admitted into Bloomingdale Asylum, and discharged therefrom. In the year. Admitted. Recovered. Improved. Unim-proved. Died. 1821............ 123 102 131 121 156 142 134 134 91 134 151 118 138 102 138 121 112 122 113 113 102 86 85 106 19 48 55 48 71 69 67 59 49 56 76 44 58 51 58 66 50 71 68 60 55 55 49 50 7 22 13 27 42 18 26 29 19 41 17 31 10 16 11 26 12 22 32 25 14 15 23 27 12 19 41 30 63 44 38 29 20 21 33 45 20 38 15 17 34 13 11 9 13 32 9 14 2 1822............ 5 1823 ........... 5 1825............ 11 3 1826............ 11 1827............ g 1828............ 13 1829............ 9 1830............ 1831............ 7 19 15 10 1832........... 1833............ 1834 ........... 14 1835............ 13 14 1836............ 1837........... 1838.. ______ 1839........... 1840 ........... 13 21 14 14 18 7 14 13 1841............ 1842 ........... 1843............ patients Received and discharged. 97 In the Year. Admitted. Recovered. Improved. Unim-proved. Died. 1845............ 138 133 143 138 95 97 95 104 135 122 107 134 128 112 138 150 111 117 115 140 152 132 144 136 140 153 141 61 54 58 53 44 50 43 49 49 48 52 54 49 34 55 50 42 48 53 52 (i6 66 58 55 51 60 60 32 36 40 55 33 15 20 25 27 29 13 27 37 34 32 46 36 24 47 30 36 33 43 48 42 44 30 20 16 18 31 13 7 9 15 32 16 23 17 25 34 26 22 18 19 16 12 22 12 22 17 16 18 17 12 1846............ 13 1847........... 1848............ 13 25 1849............ 21 1850............ 18 1851............ 11 1852............ 18 1353............ 22 1854............ 26 1855............ 19 1856............ . 19 1857............ 15 1858 .......... 11 1859............ 18 1860.......... 1861 ........... 29 19 1862.......... 20 1863........... 1864............ 14 17 1865............ 28 1866............ 24 1867............ 28 1868............ 20 1869 ........... 27 1870............ 27 1871........... 24 6,325 2,766 1,439 1,133 812 RECAPITULATION. Admitted from the 27th July, 1821, to 31st December, 1871................ 6,325 Discharged, 0 _r~ Recovered ................................................. J'^j Improved .................................................. 11S3 Unimproved................................................ ' ' , Died..................................................... ___^ 6,150 Remaining 31st December, 1871...................... 175 32g 98 NATIVITY OF PATIENTS. NATIVITY OF PATIENTS. From the 1st of February, 1792, to 19th February, 1870, there have been 144,137 patients admitted into the New York Hospi- tal, of whom there were Natives of the United States..................................... ,„ 59,289 England............................................... 9,910 " Wales............................................... 545 " Scotland.............................................. 3,277 Ireland................................................. 47,212 ------ 60,914 " West Indies............................................ 939 " British North America.................................. 1,372 " TheOcean........................................... 66 " Africa................................................. 372 " East Indies............................................. 459 ------ 3,208 " Germany........................................... 10,112 Holland............................................... 774 " Prussa................................................ 6'26 ------ 11,512 '' Denmark.............;................................ 972 " Norway...............'................................ 985 Finland .............................................. 30 " Sweden................................................ 2,117 ------ 4,104 " Russia................................................ 343 Poland................................................ 188 .------ 531 " France............................................... 1,878 '' Switzerland............................................ 339 ------ 2,217 " Italy.................................................. 693 " Spain.................................................. 486 " Portugal............................................... 553 " Sicily................................................. 65 " Austria................................................ 62 ------ 1,859 " Mexico................................................ 56 " S.America............................................. 13 ------ 69 " Arabia................................................ 10 v " China................................................. 2 ------ 12 " Turkey................................................ 5 " Greece................................................. 7 ------ 12 " Unknown..................................................... 380 144,137 LIST OF MEMBERS. 99 LIST OF MEMBERS. The following official persons, for the time being, ore Members of the Society of the New-York Hospital, by virtue of the Charier, viz.: The Mayor of New York. " Recorder do. " Aldermen do. " Assistants do. " Rector of Trinity Church. " President of Columbia College. " Senior Minister of the Reformed Dutch Protestant Church. " Minister of the Ancient Lutheran Church. " Senior Minister of the Presbyterian Church. " Minister of the German Reformed Calvinist Church. " Minister of the New Lutheran Church. " Minister of the Anabaptist Congregation. " Minister of the French Church. " Minister of the Moravian Church. " Minister of the Scotch Presbyterian Church. MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. The asterisk (*) denotes that the persons to whose names it is prefixed are dead. A. *James Anderson, *Charles Ward Apthorp, *David Austin, *William Axtel, *Saul Alley, *John Alsop, Moses Allen, *Francis Atkinson, "^ William Adamson, Jr., *Josiah Adams, *Augustin Averill, *Gilbert Aspinwall, William H. Aspinwall, *John Atkinson, William B. Astor, *William Adamson, George T. Adee, *John Jacob Astor, Loring Andrews, *John Aspinwall, John L. Aspinwall, *Stephen Allen, *John Alstyne, *John Adams, John Jacob Astor- *Samuel Akcrly, 100 LIST OP MEMBERS. B. *Samuel Bard, *William Bayarc1, *John Bogert, *Gerard William Beekman, *George Bowne, *John Beekman, *Samuel Bowne, *Samuel Broome, *Samuel Bowne, Jr., *James Beekman, *Theophylaot Bache, *Grove Bend, *Evert Bancker, *Thomas Buchanan, *Andrew Barclay, * William Brownjohn, *Francis Basset, *Dr. John Bard, *William Backhouse, *Dirk Brinkerhpof, *Benjamin Booth, *Abraham Brinkerhoof, *Walter Buchanan, *Goldsbrow Banyer, *Gerard G. Beekman, *G. G. Beekman, Jr., *James Bowne, *James Buck, *Samuel Burling, *Robert L. Bowne, *Thomas H. Brantingham, *Thomas B. Bridgen, *William Bowne, *Robert Bowne, *Joseph Byrnes, *Samuel Belamy, *Samuel Bowne, *John Barrow, *Walter Bowne, *Aaron Burr, *William Bayard, Jr., ^Thomas Buckley, *John Bogert, *John L. Bowne, *Abraham Bell, * Abraham Barker, *J. E. K. Berck, *Egbert Benson, *Divie Bethune, ' *Robert H. Bowne, *Benjamin Butler, *Joseph Blackwell, *Abraham Brinckerhoff, Jr., *Philip Brasher, * James Boyd, Jr., *James Boorman, Robert Blake, *John Bolton, *J. D. Beers, *William G. Bucknor, *Michael Burnham, *James Boggs, *John L. Buckley, *Gurdon Buck, James Brown, James W. Beekman, Sidney Brooks, Auguste Belmont, *George Bruce, *William G. Bull, *Mrs. Maria Banyer, *Mrs. Isaac Burr, *Silas Bronson, *A. O. Brodie, Mrs. Arthur Bronson, Miss Mary Bronson, Frederick Bronson, George Bell, *Japhet Bishop, Wyllis Blackstone, James Barnes, Joseph Battell, Nathaniel P. Bailey, George Hunter Brown, Robert H. Berdell, James M. Brown, Theodore B. Bronson, Ann D. Brown, David W. Bishop, T. Alston Bishop, J. Muhlenberg Bailey, James H. Banker, Benjamin F. Butler, LIST OF MEMBERS. 101 John Bridge, Wm. Tilden Blodgett. C. *De Witt Clinton, *Isaac TJ. Coles, * Alexander Colden, *David Clarkson, *Cornelius Clopper, *John Harris Cruger, *John Crook, *Isaac Corsa, *Peter Clopper, *Henry Cruger, *Robert Crommelin, *Matthew Clarkson, *Henry Cruger, Jr., *Cadwallader Colden, *Major Edward Clark, *Daniel Cotton, * James Constable, *Wrilliam Constable, *Francis Childs, *Isaac Cock, *John B. Coles, *John Clark, *Samuel Corp, *John T. Champlin, *John G. Coster, *Isaac Collins, *John Church, *Uriah Oliver Champlin, *Thomas Collins, * Richard Cunningham, *Israel Corse, *John Clark, Jr., *Willet Coles, *Levinus Clarkson, *Duncan Pearsall Campbell, *William Cairnes, *Peter Crary, Jr., *Isaac Carow, *Thomas Cadlc, "••James Conklin, David Clarkson, *Matthew Clarkson, Jr., *William Bayard Clarkson, *Cadwallader D. Colden, *Benjamin U. Coles, *William Crary, *George Chance, *Nathan Comstock, *Thomas S. Clarkson, *Isaac Collins, Stacey B. Collins, *Joseph B. Collins, *Thomas G. Cary, *Robert C. Cornell, *John S. Crary, *John M'Comb, *Henry Cary, *George J. Cornell, *Henry Chauncey, *Wm. Bayard Campbell, Frederick A. Conkling, *Jonathan I. Coddington, James N. Cobb, Francis Cottenet, *John Clapp, *James Chambers, Luther Clark, Jay Cooke, Enoch W. Clark, George Carpenter, John H. Contoit, William F. Carey, *Samuel T. Carey, Mrs. Margaret Cheesbrough, Horace B. Clafflin, Edwin Clark, R. Smith Clark, Hanson K. Corning, Edwin Clark, R. Smith Clark, Timothy M. Cheesman, M. D., Henry Chauncey, Jr., James Cassidy. D. *01iver Delancey, *Joshua Delaplaine, * James Duane, *Gerardus Duyckinck, *Gerardus De Peyster, 102 LIST OF MEMBERS. * Abraham Duryee, *Walter Du Bois, * William Duncan, London, *Elias Desbrosses, *Magdalen Desbrosses, *William Denning, *George Duncan, ":;'R. H. John Lord Drummond, *Frederick De Peyster, *Daniel Dunscomb, Jr., *Jacob Doty, *Patrick Dennis, *David L. Dodge, *John B. Dash, James F. De Peyster, Robert G. L. De Peyster, Frederick De Peyster, Jr., '"'Abraham De Peyster, *Matthew L. Davis, *Cornelius Dubois, *Rufus Davenport, *Jacob Drake, *John Delafield, * James Donaldson, *Charles Debevoise, Henry C. De Rham, Franklin H. Delano, '"'George Douglass, Charles A. Davis, Henry Dwight, Jr., William E. Dodge, *William W. De Forest, "William Douglass, William B. Duncan, Miss Susan M. C. De Peyster, Mrs. Ann De Peyster, * Simeon Draper, *Philip Dater, *John H. Dykers, Cornelius Du Bois, Frederick J. De Peyster, William Dennistoun, J. Ashton De Peyster, Henry J. Davison. E. *Andrew Elliott, ^Lawrence Embree, *William Edgar, *Thomas Eddy, *Effingham Embree, *Thoma8 Ellison, *John Elliott, *William Edgar, Jr., Charles Ely, David Eggleston, Ambrose K. Ely. F. '"'John Fothergill, M. D., London, *Walter Franklin, Sr., *George Folliott, '""Samuel Franklin, '"'Sampson Fleming, *Thomas Franklin, *Col. Edward Fanning, *Johnson Fairholme, *Thomas Fisher, """Henry Franklin, *Francis Fleming, *Caleb Frost, *George Fox, *Thomas Franklin, Jr., *John Franklin, Jr., *John Franklin, *Abraham Franklin, *Matthew Franklin, *WhiteheadlFish, *George Fitch. *Moses Field, *John W. Francis, M. D., *Samuel Flewwelling, *John Fleming, *Preserved Fish, Hickson W. Field, Hamilton Fish, '""Augustus Fleming, *Samuel M. Fox, Thomas H. Faile, Benjamin H. Field, *Edward G. Faile, Cyrus W. Field, John M. Furman, Henry S. Fearing, LIST OF MEMBERS. 103 Frederick G. Foster. VVm. H. Fogg. G. *Peter Goelet, *Hugh Gaine, *Andrew Gautier, *Nicholas Gouverneur, *Robert Gray, *Edward Goold, *Adam Gilchrist, * John J. Glover, • *Archibald Gracie, *John Greene, *Cornelius Grinnel, Jr., *Maltbie Gelston, *George Griswold, *John Greenfield. *John Graham. *John P. Groshon, * Jonathan Goodhue, *Nathaniel L. Griswold, *William Green, of England, *George Griffin, Peter Goelet, Jr., *Peter P. Goelet, *John L. Graham, James L. Graham, *Francis Griffin, John C. Green, James Gallatin, * Jasper Grosvenor, *Seth Grosvenor, *Robert C. Goodhue, Charles C. Goodhue, John Gihon, William W. Gilbert, Edward M. Greenway, *Mrs. Jonathan Goodhue, *William C. Goodhue, *E. Boonen Graves, *Frederick C. Gebhard, -Thomas Garner, James G. Garner, Sheppard Gandy, George Griswold, Mrs. E. Boonen Graves, Geo. D. H. Gillespie, Robert Gordon, Elbridge T. Gerry, Horace Gray. H. *Daniel Horsemanden, *Henry Haydock, *Joseph Hallett, *George Harrison, *Whitehead Hicks, '""Jacob Hallett, *Abijah Hammond, *Nathaniel Hawxhurst, '""Henry Haydock, Jr., *Jonn Hunter, *David Hosack, M. D., *Benjamin Huntington, *Goold Hoyt, *Henry Hammond, * Valentine Hicks, ^Oliver Hicks, *Philip Hone, *John Haggerty, *William Hartshorn, *John Hone. *Elias Haines, *William Hill, """Samuel Hicks, *Isaac Heyer, *Jacob Halsey. *William Hammersley, M. D., *Alexander Eddy Hosack, M. D., * James Heard, *Isaac S. Hone, '""Jacob Harvey, *William Howard, John C. Hamilton, * Silas Holmes, * William M. Halsted, * George F. Hussey, Townsend Harris, Edwin Hoyt, * William R. Hitchcock, *Oharles A. Heckscher, *Henry Hopkins, Edward M. Hopkins, 104 LIST OF MEMBERS. Peleg Hall, William Hoge, Thomas P. Huntington, * James Hewitt, *David Hadden, *Joshua J. Henry, William F. Havermeyer, Valentine G. Hall, *Irad Hawley, Thomas Hunt, Wilson G. Hunt, Abram S. Hewitt, Edward S. Hall, William J. Hoppin, William B. Hoffman, Eben V. Haughwout, Samuel V. Hoffman. I. Elizabeth Irving, William B. Isham. J. *John Jones, M. D., *Sir William Johnson, Baronet, *Simon Johnston, *Nicholas Jones, * James Jauncey, *Samuel Jones, *John Jay, *Charles Ingliss, *Thomas Jones, *Col. Thomas James, *John Jones, *William Jauncey, '""Horace Johnston, *Amasa Jackson, *William Johnson, *Peter A. Jay, *Samuel Jones, Jr., *Joshua Jones, *Napthali Judah, *Isaac Iselin, *John Jones, *Edward R. Jones, *Sylvanus F. Jenkins, *James Jenkins, *John Johnston, *Jeromus Johnson, *James J. Jones, *Edward Jones, George F. Jones, Hezron A. Johnson, John T. Johnston, James B. Johnston, *Miss Nancy Jay, Miss Mary S. Jones, John Q,. Jones, Bradish Johnson, Elizabeth J*ones, Edward S. Jaffray, Mary H. Johnston, Margaret T. Johnston, D. Willis James. K. *Archibald Kennedy, *Lawrence Kortright, *Peter Kettletas, *John Keese, * William Kenyon, *John Knox, "Joseph Kettletas, *John Tabor Kemp, *Robert J. Kemble, *Isaac Kibbe, """Benjamin Kissam, '""William Kelly, *John Kane, *Peter Kemble, *James Kent, "Elias Kane, *John A. King, *Joseph Kernochan, *Henry Kneeland, *James G. King, "David S. Kennedy, Morris Ketchum, *Robert Kermit, Robert Lenox Kennedy, Shepherd Knapp, ^Leonard W. Kipp, Richard Kipling, Daniel C. Kingsland, *James Lenox Kennedy. LIST OF MEMBERS. L. *Robert R. Livingston, *Philip Livingston, *Leonard Lispenard, *William Livingston, *Abraham Lott, *Peter Van Brugh Livingston, *Isaac Low, *William Ludlow, *Gabriel H. Ludlow, *John Livingston, Sr. *Jacob Leroy, *John Leake, *William Laight, *John Lawrence, *Dr. John C. Lettsom, London, *John H. Livingston, D. D. *John Laboyteux, *Philip P. Livingston, ^Robert P. Livingston, *Robert R. Livingston, Jr., *Richard R. Lawrence, *Caleb Lawrence, *Catherine Lawrence, *Cornelius P. Low, *Thomas Leggett, *Leffert Lefferts, *John Lamb, *Daniel Ludlow, *Nicholas Low, *William Lawrence, *John B. Lawrence, *Dirk Lefferts, *Herman Leroy, * Jonathan Little, *William Lovett, *Richard M. Lawrence, *Thomas Lawrence, *John T. Lawrence, *Gulian Ludlow, *Edward Lyde, Jr., * William Leffingwell, *David R. Lambert, *Robert Lenox, *Elisha Leavenworth, *Thomas H. Leggett, *James Lovett, *Jacob Lorillard. *Joseph Lloyd, *Jonathan H. Lawrence, *Henry Laverty, *John G. Leake, *Herman Le Roy, Jr., Eleazer Lord, *General Lafayette, *Cornelius W. Lawrence, *David Lee, *John W. Leavitt, *Rufus L. Lord, *Edward W. Laight, *Gideon Lee, *William Beach Lawrence, George N. Lawrence, *Daniel Lord, James Lenox, *Joseph Lawrence, *Cornelius Low, *Nicholas Low, *Charles M. Leupp, *Miss Jennet Lenox, Miss Henrietta A. Lenox, *Peter Lorillard. James F. D. Lanier, George Law, James Lee, Mrs. Robert Livingston, *George Lovett, *Schuyler Livingston, *Jacob R. Le Roy. Robert E. Livingston, Robert J. Livingston, Josiah 0. Low. George W. Lane. M. *Peter Middleton, M. D., *Roger Morris, *Abraham Mortier, *Abraham Mesier, *Richard Morris, *John Moore, *William M'Adam, *Nathaniel Marston, *John Myer, 106 LIST OF MEMBERS. M. *Charles McEvers, *Alexander M'Dougall, *John Murray, Jr., *Lindley Murray, *William Maxwell, *Robert Murray, """John Murray, * Alexander M'Comb, *William Minturn, """John M'Vickar, *Benjamin G. Minturn, *Robert Mott, * John Marslin, *Thomas Maule, *Mary McEvers, """Mordecai Myers, *Samuel Mansfield, * Andrew Morris, *John R. Murray, *James Magee, *Nathaniel G. Minturn, *Samuel Mott, *Peter J. Munro, *Peter Mesier, * James M'Vicar, *Stephen B. Munn, * Jonas Minturn, *John Mason, *Samuel L. Mitchell, M. D. *John B. Murray, *Benjamin Marshall, *Samuel M'Coun, *John M'Comb, *John Mason, Jr., *Samuel S. W. Moore. M. D., *Robert I. Murray, *Samuel F. Mott, *Robert B. Minturn, Edwin D. Morgan, *Robert McCoskry, John R. Murray, David Colden Murray, *Samuel Marsh, *Charles H. Marshall, *Mathew Morgan, *Josiah Macy, William H. Macy, Francis H. Macy, *John H. Macy, John D. Maxwell, *Miss Mary Murray, "Miss Harriet Murray, Daniel S. Miller, Edward Minturn, George Merritt, William Mackay, Charles Moran, *Daniel E. Moran, Sidney Mason, T. Bailey Meyers. N. *William Neilson, * George Newbold, """John Neilson, M. D., """Russel H. Nevins, Adam Norrie, David H. Nevins, Mortimer 0. H. Norton, *Thomas H. Newbold, William Niblo. O. *Samuel Osgood, *Thomas L. Ogden, * Andrew Ogden, *David B. Ogden, *William Osborn, *John Oothout, *David W. C. Olyphant, David Olyphant, George Talbot Olyphant, Robert M. Olyphant, William B. Ogden. *David Provost, *Thomas Pearsall, *Lewis Pintard, *John Pell, *Daniel Phoenix, * Joseph Pearsall, *Edmund Prior, LIST OF MEMBERS. 107 p. ^Frederick Pigou, *Thomas Pearsall, *Frederick Philips, *Elijah Pell, *William Post. *Henry Post, Jr., *Benjamin Douglass Perkins, *Jotham Post, Jr., *Allison Post, *Thomas C. Pearsall, *William Plyment, *Nathaniel Prime, *Isaac Pierson, *Amos Palmer, *Gideon Pott, *Wright Post, M. D., *Henry Parish, * J. Philips Phoenix, ■""Stephen Price, *Thomas W. Pearsall, Waldron B. Post, Edward Prime, *Pelatiah Perit, *John J. Palmer, James Phalen, Royal Phelps, Thomas Paton, Henry L. Pierson, Jehiel J. Post, William H. Pomroy, Edmund Penfold, William Paton. R. "Walter Rutherford, *Isaac Roosevelt, "Henry Rutgers, Jr., *Alexander Robinson, *Cornelius Ray, *Moses Rogers, *Jacobus Roosevelt, "Elizabeth Richards, *Henry Rutgers, *John Reid, *Nehemiah Rogers, *William T. Robinson, *Herman G. Rutgers, *John Peter Ritter, *Sylvester Robinson, *William H. Robinson, *John W. Russell, Benjamin W. Rogers, *Jacob Le Roy, * William Rogers, *Nathaniel Richards, *Jacob Radcliffe, '""George Richards, *Henry Remsen, *Philip Rhinelander, *John Rathbone, Jr., *Henry Rogers, """Morris Robinson, '""Peter Remsen, Robert Ray, Charles H. Russell, *Wm. J. Roome, *George P. Rapelye, Guy Richards, ^Cornelius V. S. Roosevelt, James Robb, William C. Rhinelander, George A. Robbins, Christopher R. Robert, S. Howland Robbins. S. *William Smith, *John Morris Scott, *Thomas Smith, *Richard Sharpe, *Isaac Sears, *Nicholas Stuyvesant, *Gerard Stuyvesant, '""Miles Sherbrook, *Christopher Smith, *William Shotwell, *George Stafford, *Jesse Smith, *William Seton, *Edmund Seaman, *Comfort Sands, *William Shedden, *Henry Sadler, 108 LIST *Thomas Stoughton, •Christopher M. Slocum, *John Stiles, *Ebenezer Stevens, *James R. Smith, •Reuben Smith, •Peter Schermerhom, *Pascal N. Smith, •James Scott, *Allen Shepherd, *Jacob Sherred, *Jacob Schieffelin, •Gamaliel Smith, *Garrit Stephens, •Drake Seymour, *Isaac Sebring, *John Slidell, *Benjamin Strong, *Robert Seaman, *Jesse Scofield, *Jacob Storm, •Ferdinand Suydam, Stephen Storm, •James Sterling, *Josiah Sturges, *Thomas H. Smith, Jr., *Nathaniel Smith, *Alexander H. Stevens, M. D., *Rev. Dr. John Stanford, ""Thomas R. Smith, *Peter Sharpe, *Garrit Storm, *Peter Skinner, *Benjamin L. Swan, John A. Stevens, *George Strong, *Joseph S. Shotwell, •Frederick Sheldon, *John Suydam, *Thomas Suffern, *Peter G. Stuyvesant, •Peter Augustus Schermerhom, *Joseph Sampson, Jonathan Sturgea, *Aquilla G. Stout, *Thomas B. Stillman, •Caleb Swan, OF MEMBERS. Robert L. Stuart, Alexander Stuart, George L. Schuyler, Melancthon L. Seymour, John Fisher Sheafe, William W. Stone, "Joseph Steele, *John C. Stevens, Leonard O. S. Suarez, *William H. Smith, *Edward F. Sanderson, *Rutsen Suckley, Rufus R. Skeel, *Horatio G. Stevens, David Stewart, •Gerard Stuyvesant, Mrs. William A. Spencer, * Joseph Shipley, of Brandy wine. Frederick Sheldon, Jr., Otis D. Swan, Eleanor F. Strong, Jackson S. Schultz, Benj. B. Sherman, Francis Skiddy, Paul Spofford, George Smith, James Stokes. T *John Thurman, * John Thurston, *John Titus, *John Townsend, •Najah Taylor, •Robert Troup, *Jeremiah Thompson, '""Francis Thompson, '""Thomas C. Taylor, •George Taylor, Jr., *Samuel Tuke, of the city of York, Eng. "Hugh K. Toler, *Wilson Taylor, *Joseph R. Taylor, *Elihu Townsend, *Frederick A. Tracy, •Jonathan Thompson, •Elisha Tibbitts, LIST MEMBERS. *Daniel Trimble, "George T. Trimble, •John R. Townsend, •Thomas Tileston, Merritt Trimble, Jonathan Thorne, Charles N. Talbot, Mary B. Trimble. •David Thompson, •John Trenor, M. D., Mrs. Cornelia Trimble, Edward H. Tracy, James H. Titus. U. •William Ustick, •William Ustick, Jr., •Benjamin Underhill, •Gustaphus Upsom. V. •Jacobus Van Zandt, •John Van Cortlandt, •Augustus Van Cortlandt, •David Van Home, •Samuel Verplanck, •Augustus Van Home, •Henry Van Vleck. •Theodorus Van Wyck, •Peter Vandervoort, •James Van Varick, •Gulian Verplanck, •Richard Varick, •John Van Blarcom, •Wynant Van Zandt, Jr., •William Vandervoort, •John V. B. Varick, •Gulian C. Verplanck. •Myndert Van Schaick, •William L. Vandervoort, •Hubert Van Wagenen, Washington R. Vermilye. Alexander Van Rensselaer. W. •John Watts, •Hugh Wallace, •Henry White, •Thomas White, •Jacob Watson, •John Weatherhead, •Caspar Wistar, •Erasmus Williams, •Thomas Wooldridge, •Richard Waldron, •William Walton, •Gerard Walton, •Isaac L. Winn, •Robert Watts, •Gilbert C. Willett, •James Watson, •Charles Watkins, •William W. Woolsey, •Joshua Waddington, •Henry L. Wyckoff, •Jacob Walton, •Henry Ward, •John R. Wheaton, •Eliphalet Williams, •Charles Wilkes, •Lemuel Wells, •Stephen Whitney, •Ezra Weeks, •Oliver Wolcott, •Samuel Wood, •John G. Warren, •Jasper Ward, •Isaac Wright, •Samuel Ward, •Thomas W. Ward, •Cornelius Williams, •Isaac Wood, M. D., •John Watts, M. D., •A. Wr. V. Worey, •Dr. Hugh Williamson, •Abijah Weston, •Joseph Walker, •Samuel Ward, •John Ward, Benjamin R. W^inthrop, Samuel Willets, Stephen C. Williams, •John David Wolfe, •Richard H. Winslow, 110 LIST OF MEMBERS. James Winslow, Edward J. Wroolsey, Eli White, Robert R. Willets, John M. Wisdom, •Oliver Wetmore, Augustus Wetmore, Miss Abby G. 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